Turu Ecology: Habitat, Mode of Production, and Society
- 1 July 1966
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Africa
- Vol. 36 (3) , 254-268
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1157682
Abstract
Opening ParagraphThe purpose of this paper is to describe the production and settlement system of the Bantu-speaking Turu of central Tanzania and to discuss its effects on the social system. Save for certain other peoples of this area who are historically close to the Turu, the practice of manuring of land and strictly sedentary settlement without slash-and-burn horticultural techniques or bush fallowing (except as ancillary to the main production processes) are an unusual combination in Africa.Keywords
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