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..., and collapse that features within scholarly, popular, and policy-oriented accounts of Lake Victoria's fisheries. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 ontological politics multispecies ethnography Lake Victoria East Africa The research for this article was made possible through the support...

... ethnographic exploration of eating and existence draws our attention to counternarratives of death and collapse in popular and policy accounts of Lake Victoria s fisheries. Focus- ing on the Black Winter of 1860 61, Ranin Kazemi s study of famine in Iran explores how warfare and the rise of a new form...

... and other necessaries, and return home.”l5 In the the coast.10 The limited evidence we have from the last decades of the century the Sukuma from the first half of the century suggests that many, perhaps south end of Lake Victoria and Manyema from the most, caravan porters traveling on the central...

... Press of the intersection of gender, social history, and environ- America, 2002), Philosophy of Symmetry (Indian Insti- mental governance in and around Lake Victoria. tute of Advanced Study, 2004), Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science (Motilal Banarsidass, 2005), What Ranin Kazemi is an assistant...

... and lumber, soda, oil- 1919 17 processing,soap production and a steamboat Indian-owned ginneries in Uganda and 50% of the Ugandan cotton crop went to Bombay operation on Lake Victoria. His firm (Mangat, By of invested...

...Naz Yücel Abstract This article investigates the transformation of three coeval monarchs—Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876–1909), Queen Victoria (r. 1837–1901), and King Leopold II (r. 1865–1909)—into private landed property owners in the late nineteenth century. In its comparisons, the article centers...

... protein may size, abundance, and palatability made it, in Buech- explain Kinloch’s decision to introduce the Nile ner’s view, one of the most promising candidates for perch to the Lake Victoria basin in the mid-­1950s, a sustainable wildlife crop for Uganda, particularly which even at the time...

...-Moroccan border, to Lake Victoria and then further on to various locations in southern Africa, or the Croisière Jaune (“Yellow Cruise”) from Beirut to Beijing. These “cruises,” in employing the racist imagery of the time in the tradition of colonial exploration, could satisfy the lust for romantic...

....” 27. Cāndāyana , v. 20. 28. For more on the significance of the allegory of the lake in a bhakti context, including the image of a lake with four ghats , see Lutgendorf, Life of a Text , 20–22 . 29. Anupam Mishra describes the talaab symbol to have been worn as a tattoo since...

... in Revolutionary Zanzibar.” International Journal of African Historical Studies 35 , no. 2–3 ( 2002 ): 287 – 313 . Burton Richard F. “The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa.” Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 29 ( 1859 ): 1 – 464 . Caton Steven C. “Peaks of Yemen...

... Lakes region involved a cultural discourse of “trans-nationality and multi-ethnicity.” See Pennacini, “Religious Mobility.” 121. Here I borrow Prestholdt's term domestication to refer not to objects, but to ideas of “the global.” Prestholdt, Domesticating the World . 122. David...

..., the Indian taarab formances were appreciated by discerning Indians clown exceeds his ostensible role as mere enter- in far-­off places like Bukoba, on Lake Victoria. But tainer, becoming a kind of cultural critic working there was also a farcical aspect to his Indian per- through an embodied methodology...

... or resident killed or wounded in Palestine or Trans-Jordan so far as can be ascertained.” 1 Augusta Victoria, the high commissioner's residence, was declared “uninhabitable” and the commissioner had to requisition a house in Jerusalem. 2 The destruction was noticeable everywhere. The number...

... of Palestinian Women (Salt Lake City: University March 1993. The magazine’s last issue was 97. of Utah Press, 1992); Julie Peteet, Gender in Crisis: Women and 12Tibawi’s study on Arab Education under the Mandate is the Palestinian Resistance Movement (NY: Columbia, 1991); Susan by far the most comprehensive...