HIS395H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Malaria, Transhumance, Herding
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Historical lingusitics central, contact and exchange of language. Mountains and rivers that create a complex and fertile spaces. Most cultivation is done on hill slopes. By 7th cen almost every hill was inhabitated. Identity and migration are centralpoints for understanding rwanada ( origins) May have been migration , but stability for almost 2 thousand years. No maleria , or sleeping sickness, large scale stable populations. 3 categories : farmers, herders and foragers. Gender collaboration in farmin societes incomparison to herding populations. Herding : 30-50 heads of cattle, in low level terrain, transhumance , lots of labor, sharp divison of labor. 2 livelyhoods are interwoven, competeiton over land use. ** pg 29, vancina ( need cordination of polticial structures to be able to use resources) Land was never partioned permantely , no owning. Smallest united : inzu ( the household) 3 generations. Cattle as wealth , iron as well.
