The current study consists of a preliminary analysis of the faunal materials recovered from test pit excavations at Magubike (HxJf-01) and Mlambalasi (HwJf-02), two archaeological sites in the Iringa district of Tanzania. Both sites contain faunal materials from the Iron Age, Later Stone Age and Middle Stone Age, which is unique for this region and causes them to be particularly germane to the behavioural modernity debate. The analysis of the faunal materials employed a combined zooarchaeological and taphonomic approach designed to elucidate each site’s formational history and human behavioural component. Through the construction of a sound taphonomic framework, an initial understanding of the formational processes at both sites was achieved and insight into Iron Age human subsistence strategies was attained. The poor preservation of the Later Stone Age and Middle Stone Age faunal materials precluded an understanding of the human subsistence strategies employed during these periods. / Anthropology

Thesis (PhD(Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 379-396).

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: David G. Scanlon. Dissertation Committee: R. Freeman Butts, L. Gray Cowan. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. [71]-75.

Thesis (M.T.S.)--Catholic Theological Union, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [118]-123).

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-183).

While investigating the biology of the economically important members of the genus Lutianus on the East African coastline, difficulty was experienced with the identification and the nomenclature of the group using existing literature. It was essential that adequate descriptions of the species of the genus should be available before their biology could be investigated. Routine work of the East African Marine Fisheries Research Organization has produced over 1,000 specimens for study. The Organization's vessel, the M.V. "Research", has collected by handlines, multiple trolling lines, gill nets, deep lines and basket traps over the six hundred mile coastline of Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar Protectorate, i.e. from Lat. l o 30" S. to 10° 30" S. This material forms the basis of the present paper. Underwater observations with and without a Seibe-Gorman aqualung down to seven fathoms have been made on a number of coral reefs. In this way some knowledge of the habits of certain species of the genus has been acquired, and some species rarely taken by normal fishing methods were discovered to be common. Specimens of these have been collected by spear guns. Where notes of habits of a species have been made they have been appended under the heading "Ecological note". Of the thirteen species of the genus found in the area, all (except the very small L. ehrenbergi) pass through the local markets and are considered good eating, and seven are important food fishes. Economically the genus ranks as one of the three most important groups of bottom Telcosts; the others being the Epinephelids and the genus Lethrinus.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / ‘A Visual Struggle for Mozambique. Revisiting narratives, interpreting photographs (1850 – 1930)’ is a study that requires an engagement with the historiography of the Portuguese empire, with reference to Mozambique. This is initially to provide some context for the East African situation in which photography began to feature in the mid- to late 19th century. But the other purpose is to see what impact the inclusion of visual archives has on the existing debates concerning Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique, and elsewhere. The rationale for this study, therefore, is to see what difference photographs will make to our interpretation and understanding of this past. The central issue is the ‘visual struggle’ undertaken to explore and dominate the territory of Mozambique. Deprived of their ‘historical rights’ by the requirements of the Berlin Treaties that insisted on ‘effective occupation’, the Portuguese started to employ a complex of knowledge-producing activities in which photography was crucially involved. Constituting part of the Pacification Campaigns that led to the territorial occupation, photographic translations of action taken to control the different regions in fact define the southern, central and northern regions of the country. The chapters propose ways to analyze photographs that cover issues related to different forms of knowledge construction. The resulting detail sometimes diverges from expectations associated with their archival history, such as the name of the photographers and exact dates, which are often unavailable.1 In discussing processes of memorialization, the thesis argues that memory is fragile. The notion of ellipsis is applied to enrich the potential narratives of the photographs. The thesis reads them against the grain in search of counter-narratives, underpinned by the concept of ‘visual dissonances’, which challenges the official history or stories attached to the photographs. Besides a participation in the general debates about the work of photography in particular, this research is driven by the need to find new ways to access the history of Mozambique. Ultimately the project will facilitate these photographic archives to re-enter public awareness, and help to promote critical approaches in the arts and humanities in this part of southern Africa.

Starting with a broad attempt to define the general concerns in African literature, and the cultural esthetics which form the basis of this writing, this thesis tries to place the emerging East African literature in English into the stream of African literature, and of literature at large. It focusses particularly on the works of Okot p'Bitek and James Ngugi and treats broadly the themes emerging from the East African environment and the artistic challenges which these themes pose to the writer. It concludes that meaning and strength in this emerging literature will stem from the writers' awareness and sensibility to their environment and a willingness to make an honest and artistic appraisal of this situation. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

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