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Acknowledgments This book has been ten years in the making and along the way has incurred many debts of gratitude that can never be fully repaid. I am grateful for the institutional support I received during the course of my graduate studies and research in Tanzania. The dissertation research was assisted by a grant from the Joint Committee on African Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies with funds provided by the Ford, Mellon, and Rockefeller Foundations. I also received a research grant from the Institute of International Education under the U.S. Fulbright Student Program (1995–96). In 2003 a generous research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed me to take a semester for additional research in Tanzania and writing. I express my sincere gratitude to the government of Tanzania for permission to do research in the country under the auspices of the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology and the history department of the University of Dar es Salaam. Members of that department were always generous with their time and support. Special thanks to Dr. Fred J. Kaijage, Dr. Bertram Mapunda, Dr. Rugatiri D. K. Mekacha, Dr. B. Itandala, Dr. I. N. Kimambo, Dr. Nestor Luanda, and Dr. Yusufu Q. Lawi. I am thankful to the patient staff at the Tanzania National Archives, the East Africana Collection at the University of Dar es Salaam library, the Bodleian Library at Rhodes House (UK), the Public Records Office (UK), the University of Florida Africana collection, and the Goshen (Indiana) College library. Gratitude is also extended to Markus Borner of Frankfurt Zoological Society and the Serengeti Research Institute for use of their facilities while my husband Peter was working with their GIS project and for sharing mapping data. The University of Florida, where I studied, and Goshen College, where I teach, have been excellent homes for intellectual growth. I thank the history department and the African Studies Center at the University of Florida for their support, received over my years there in the form of assistantships, travel grants, writing fellowships, and much more. At the University of Florida I experienced an atmosphere of creative interdisciplinary interaction with a community of scholars who demonstrated an unusually cooperative spirit, including Holly Hanson , Tracy Baton, Marcia Good, Edda Fields, Catherine Bogosian, Jim Ellison, Todd Leedy, Kearsley Stewart, and Kym Morrison. My deepest appreciation is xi You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. extended to my mentors, especially Steve Feierman, Hunt Davis, and David Schoenbrun, who have given so much of their time and intellectual inspiration to my work. Goshen College provided ongoing financial and physical support for research through the Minninger Center and the Multicultural Affairs Office . A wonderful group of colleagues and students on Wyse third at Goshen College provided inspiration and grounding in the last phase of the research and writing. Thanks especially John D. Roth, Steve Nolt, and Lee Roy Berry in the History Department. Perhaps unknowingly, my students in the Environmental History classes of 2002 and 2004 helped me to think through many of the issues in the book. Thanks also to my wonderful research assistants, Nyangere Faini, Rose Wang’ombe Mtoka, Jessica Meyers, and Emily Hershberger. Many people read partial or complete drafts of the project and gave me comments along the way: Holly Hanson, Marcia Good, David Schoenbrun, Elizabeth Garland, Elizabeth Smucker, Kathleen Smythe, Richard Waller, and the readers and my editors at Ohio University Press, including Jean Allman and Allan Isaacman, whose suggestions made the book so much better. I am most grateful. While I was in Dar es Salaam in 1996 and 2003 I enjoyed the good conversation and camaraderie of a wider community of scholars staying at the TYCS hostel and working in the archives. Even as I finished writing my dissertation on our farm in Dove Creek, Colorado, the lovely community around me gave me the sustenance necessary to do the job. A constant source of input and ideas were my colleagues at the Tanzania Studies Association. In Tanzania numerous people aided my work, while providing good hospitality and friendship. Thanks to Mwalimu Nyamaganda Magoto for all the time he spent going over hundreds of cultural terms in Nata; to Susana Nyabikwabe Mayani for teaching me Nata and being my friend; to Adija Sef for...