TY - BOOK AU - Giblin,James Leonard AU - Giblin,Blandina Kaduma TI - A history of the excluded: making family a refuge from state in twentieth-century Tanzania T2 - Eastern African studies SN - 0852554672 AV - HN797.N58 G53 2005 U1 - 967.825 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Athens, Ohio PB - James Currey, Mkuki na Nyota, Ohio University Press KW - Marginality, Social KW - Tanzania KW - Njombe KW - Families KW - Njombe (Tanzania) KW - Rural conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index; 1; Imagining a private space in an era of war --; 2; Making a separate family sphere --; 3; Marrying cousins --; 4; The ties that bound travelling labourers to family --; 5; Women, the family sphere & the road to Tanga --; 6; Personal accomplishment in farming --; 7; Building family business --; 8; The private sphere & the politics of land in the 1950s --; 9; Nationalism & the private sphere --; 10; In conclusion : the private sphere, the state & the ambiguities of memory at the end of life N2 - "This is an intimate view of change in a rural Tanzanian society during the twentieth century. It focuses on individual women and men and is told largely in their own words. It traces their efforts both to defy and benefit from the most important event in the modern history of Africa - the imposition of state authority."--BOOK JACKET ER -