{"title":"SYMBIOTIC AND COMPLEMENTARY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT: AN EXAMINATION","authors":"B. Mapunda","doi":"10.56279/tza20210913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/tza20210913","url":null,"abstract":"In its general usage, the term history is multifaceted. It encompasses a number of frontages, including study (discipline), time, and value. These, in essence, are inseparable; reference to one usually incorporates the other two, whether explicitly or implicitly. It is on account of this multidimensionality that History as a discipline, relates to a number of other disciplines; Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management are two among many. The two disciplines, which themselves are also multifarious; interact with History in various aspects, including subject matter, temporality, methodology and theory. This paper examines the relationship between the three disciplines: History, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage Management to see why they should and how they can exist interdependently. It further identifies, potentially, what and how much each is expected to import from and export to the other two in order to maintain a symbiotic and complementary relationship. The paper, however, cautions that reciprocity and mutual respect are central principles for sustainable interdisciplinarity.","PeriodicalId":134808,"journal":{"name":"Tanzania Zamani: A Journal of Historical Research and Writing","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127188862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Location History in the Humanities","authors":"Y. Lawi","doi":"10.56279/tza20210912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/tza20210912","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the question of the place of History within the broader scholarly domain of the Humanities. It was prompted by the need to continue seeking for more clarity on what History as a domain of scholarly inquiry has in common with the rest of the humanistic disciplines and how that relationship may have changed over the many centuries of the existence the Humanities. The broader context for the discussion in the article is the continued effort by scholars such as Rens Bod, to articulate the general principles and laws that govern scholarship in the humanities. Due to the vastness of the subject matter, the article is essentially sketchy and often schematic. It handles the Humanities in its generality rather than giving an exposition of how History relates to each of the known Humanities disciplines individually, as the latter task is addressed at least partly by other contributions that are being published along with this article. The article takes a diachronic approach, starting with a brief section on the concept of the Humanities in time, and spending more space in discussing the changing relationship between History on one hand and the rest of the humanistic disciplines on the other. The last section provides a summary of the discussion, highlighting the fact that History has been part of the Humanities since antiquity but its linkage with the rest of the humanistic disciplines has seen considerable changes over time.","PeriodicalId":134808,"journal":{"name":"Tanzania Zamani: A Journal of Historical Research and Writing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129167803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTERROGARTING THE LINK BETWEEN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: INSIGHTS FROM THINGS FALL APART, KINJEKITILE AND STANLEY MEETS MUTESA","authors":"Eliah S. Mwaifuge","doi":"10.56279/tza20210915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/tza20210915","url":null,"abstract":"Literature as representation has not only been able to capture the people’s imagination of a given epoch but has in itself constituted a historical account that goes deeper than mere representation of historical fact. As such, literature is a good tool for historical representation and examination, which complements historical records. Whereas history deals with hard historical facts, literature deals with fictionalised history inspired by historical events or imagination but in either case shaped by the society it represents. Thus, one can read a historical novel as both a fictional and factual representation of the historical fact. In this regard, the paper argues that the intersection between literature and history is inevitable because fiction uses the creative industry to represent historical events with both history and literature being products of society. Using a historical approach, this paper uses Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Hussein’s Kinjeketile and Rubadili’s “Stanley Meets Mutesa,” which represents the three key genres—novel, drama and poetry, respectively, to interrogate how history and literature are connected. Achebe’s Things Fall Apart depicts the historical encounter during the advent of colonialism. Hussein’s Kinjeketile portrays the struggle between the colonised and the coloniser in the fictionalised Tanganyika. Rubadili’s “Stanley Meets Mutesa” depicts a cruel encounter between the colonised and the coloniser with the colonised seemingly blind to the machinations of the coloniser. The three literary texts are used to illustrate the historical connection between history and literature.","PeriodicalId":134808,"journal":{"name":"Tanzania Zamani: A Journal of Historical Research and Writing","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126147703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE INTERFACE BETWEEN HISTORY AND ALLIED SCIENCES: THE CASE OF HISTORY AND CREATIVE ARTS","authors":"E. Jengo","doi":"10.56279/tza20210914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/tza20210914","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that there is a strong interface between History and the Creative Arts such as Drawing, Design, Painting and Sculpture among other arts. By its very nature, the History discipline acts as a mirror of human existence providing answers to most aspects of human life. Such answers help in drawing lessons from the thoughts and actions of the past to guide us in our present ways of life. As an indispensable field in the humanities, History interacts with a host of other fields such as the arts, aesthetics, philosophy, archaeology and anthropology, to mention only a few, in developing patriotism and awareness in the importance of cultural heritage. The ways in which History and the Creative Arts affect each other as discussed in this article demonstrate how contemporary art in East Africa has been shaped by different events most of which can be described only historically.","PeriodicalId":134808,"journal":{"name":"Tanzania Zamani: A Journal of Historical Research and Writing","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115235500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating through German Colonial Past in Tanzania through Artistic Productions","authors":"Vicensia Shule","doi":"10.56279/tza20211025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/tza20211025","url":null,"abstract":"There are various works of arts that represent German colonial history in Tanzania. Such artistic productions linked to cultural productions depict not only the history of Tanzania in relation to the colonial past but also reflect the current struggles to overcome the colonial legacy. This study is informed by qualitative research methods including observations, interviews and documentary review. The study is based on the interpretation of artistic productions and linkages to decoloniality discourse. Six artistic works were used as a case study. These were Nkhomanile (2006), Mkwawa (2011), MV Liemba (2015), Maji Maji Flava (2016), Skull X 2016) and Mangi Meli Remains (2018). The study argues that the artistic productions under review depict German colonial history in Tanzania. The depiction underscores the exploitative, violent and brutal nature of that history. Significantly, the colonised did not sit back and watch because they had resisted the German occupation of their land as most of the productions illustrate. However, such artistic productions are informed mostly by the funding agencies and audiences which appear predefined for such productions. Therefore, it is important to research further on the nature and behaviour of the audience of the artistic productions linked to the historical colonialism.","PeriodicalId":134808,"journal":{"name":"Tanzania Zamani: A Journal of Historical Research and Writing","volume":"26 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126160459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mbarali Chinese Rice Farm and its Environmental Menace in the Usangu Plains, 1971 to the mid-1980s","authors":"George K. Ambindwile","doi":"10.56279/tza20211023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/tza20211023","url":null,"abstract":"For a long time, the Mbarali Rice Farm in the Usangu Plains has been portrayed as a success story of the Chinese establishment in Tanzania. The farm has been associated with development and expansion of rice farming, population growth, development of rice agricultural infrastructures in the region and with an increased food production nationwide. However, its history and the environmental cost of such development in the region have rarely been scrutinised. Drawing on archival and oral sources, this paper argues that the Mbarali Rice Farm constructed in Chinese model has brought substantial environmental impact such as weeds (wild rice) invasion in the region, water use change, floods and loss of biodiversity, consequently leading to its ecological decline.","PeriodicalId":134808,"journal":{"name":"Tanzania Zamani: A Journal of Historical Research and Writing","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121361366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dilemma of Human Relations and Access to Land at the Face of Game Conservation Policies in Mara Region, Tanzania, 1920s – 2014","authors":"I. R. Magoti","doi":"10.56279/tza20211022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/tza20211022","url":null,"abstract":"Tanzania is one of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa which has great number of conserved and protected areas, and aspires to protect more areas. However, there is a growing concern among Tanzania’s people who live around conserved areas that their rights to access land and other natural resources around is being impinged. As a result, conflicts emerge between local people and those who call themselves 'conservationists'. Increase of population of both human beings and wild animals continues to aggravate the problem. In light of that thinking, this paper examines game conservation policies and their far-reaching implications on human relations and access to land in Mara region. The main assumption is that changes of land use from human settlement, grazing, cultivation and hunting land to game reserves and controlled areas creates pressure on the meagre remaining land surface. This situation, in turn, affects the pre-existing human relations and the future prospects of the surrounding communities. The paper builds its analysis from both secondary and primary sources such as review of books and journal articles, archival research and oral in-depth interviews conducted in the area. The findings show that conservation practices in Tanzania prioritize animal rights at the expense of human population thereby creating dilemma on human relations and survival. Finally, the paper reveals that there has been an emerging trend for conservation for the interest of the foreign investors; that investors and some government officials benefit more than the local community around.","PeriodicalId":134808,"journal":{"name":"Tanzania Zamani: A Journal of Historical Research and Writing","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132352250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}