The mobile workshop the tsetse fly and African knowledge production - Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa 1972- (Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press, 2018)
Introducing Mhesvi and Ruzivo Rwemhesvi -- How Vanhu managed tsetse -- Translation into science and policy -- Knowing a fly -- How to trap a fly -- Attacking fly from within: parasitization and sterilization -- Exposing the fly to its enemies -- Cordon sanitaire: prophylactic settlement -- Traffic control: a surveillance system for unwanted passengers -- Starving the fly -- The coming of the organochlorine pesticide -- Bombing flies -- The work of ground spraying: incoming machines in vatema's hands -- DDT, pollution, and gomarara: a muted debate -- Chemoprophylactics -- Unleashed: Mhesvi in a time of war -- A conclusion: Vatema as intellectual agents.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-405) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Tsetse-flies -- Control -- Zimbabwe -- History; Tsetse-flies -- Control -- Social aspects -- Zimbabwe; Tsetse-flies -- Ecology; Traditional ecological knowledge -- Zimbabwe; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Zimbabwe; Knowledge management -- Zimbabwe; Electronic books