Gender-based division of labour is a system practised throughout the world; in precolonial times Southern Highlands Tanzania was no exception. Given that gender-based established by tradition, it feared breaching cultural norms transgressing boundaries would bring on curse. Even so, women assumed extra burden tasks left their migrant husbands. This included clearing land, which chiefly man’s du...

This paper proposes to undertake an analysis of the Kachari Buranji (1936), a chronicle, collated from old Assamese manuscripts, documenting Ahom–Kachari relations end fourteenth beginning eighteenth century. buranji comes under sub-genre called kataki buranjis (the others being Jayantia and Tripura Buranji), which have dealt with political other correspondences between Ahoms adjoining kingdoms...

Abstract Based on bankruptcy and inheritance files population business registers from Ruanda-Urundi, this paper reconstructs the local long-distance professional affective relations of Indian Arab merchants operating in around Bujumbura two decades before after Great Depression (1920s–1930s). The story complements historiography Asian diasporas East Africa by going beyond Ocean coast, precoloni...

Ubuntu originated in small-scale societies precolonial Africa. It stresses metaphysical and moral interconnectedness of humans, newer Africapitalist approaches absorb ubuntu ideology, with the aims promoting community wellbeing restoring a love local place that global free trade has eroded. Ecological degradation violates these goals, which ought to translate into care for nonhuman world, addit...

Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación sobre las narrativas referentes a roles desempeñados por caciques y el comunitarismo político Nasa durante tiempo la colonia. El objetivo esta indagación es rastrear analizar formas en que se han ido construyendo posibles nociones asociaciones semánticas con término autonomía indígena. Es un trabajo análisis documental centrado estudio ...

Abstract Moratorium is a common marine resource management strategy used by nation‐states that abruptly reclassifies the harvesting and trade of designated resources as ‘illegal’ for defined period. Nation‐states use moratoria to help ecological stocks overharvested species recover. The Fijian state instituted moratorium on harvest beche‐de‐mer between 2017 2022 due evidence overfishing. Throug...