UID:
almahu_9949281619702882
Format:
1 online resource (432 pages)
ISBN:
9780262345866
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0262345862
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9780262345859
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0262345854
Series Statement:
The MIT Press
Content:
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
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Preface: Before we begin: introducing mhesvi and ruzivo rwemhesvi -- How vanhu managed tsetse -- Translation into science and policy -- Knowing a fly -- How to trap a fly -- Attacking fly from within: parasitization and sterilization -- Exposing the fly to its enemies -- Cordon sanitaire: prophylactic settlement -- Traffic control: a surveillance system for unwanted passengers -- Starving the fly -- The coming of the organochlorine pesticide -- Bombing flies -- The work of ground spraying: incoming machines in vatema's hands -- DDT, pollution, and gomarara: a muted debate -- Chemoprophylactics -- Aftermaths -- A conclusion: Vatema as intellectual agents.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262535021
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0262535025
Language:
English
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