Ecology and Change

ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Mbozi The Corridor Region Mbozi Area Chapter 2 The People Peoples of the Corridor Region The Nyiha Chapter 3 Ethnogeography and Geography Climate and the Traditional Calendar Traditional Land Types Soils Vegetation Environmental Risk and Uncertainty Chapter 4 Traditional Agricultural Systems Crops The Nkomanjila System The Nkule System Subsidiary Systems Livestock Chapter 5 Contemporary Agricultural Patterns The Silwimba Farm Agricultural Change Persistence of the Traditional Food-Crop System Chapter 6 Sources of Change The Indigenous Sources The Alien Sources The Government Chapter 7 Models of Change The Cultural Model The Resource Model The Economic Model The Spatial Model Models of Change Rural ModernizationChapter 8 Implications of Change Change and Spatial Organization Change and Economy Change and Ecology Change and CultureAppendix 1 The Vegetation of UnyihaAppendix 2 The Mbozi Economic SurveyAppendix 3 Key to AlienationsReferencesIndex and Glossary