Title

Norman Miller Archive: Africa Research Data and Field Notes

Document Type

Digital Project

Publication Date

2016

Publication Title

African-Carribean Institute

Department

Geisel School of Medicine

Abstract

The Miller Field Notes are a digitized searchable collection of original East African field notes collected in three districts of Tanzania in the years 1964-1966. The districts Tabora, Rungwe, and Kisarawe represent three ecological zones (arid savannah, highlands, and coastal). The original 1800 typed cards have been scanned into a searchable database. Topics include local government and politics, village economics, wildlife management, historic and colonial reports, transition after independence, and conflicts such as witchcraft violence. The changing structures of provincial government in the early years of Tanzanian independence under President Nyerere are detailed here.

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