Fipa Families: Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkansi, Ufipa, 1880-1960 Smythe, Kathleen R.

Ufipa, a labor reserve for Tanganyika, witnessed minimal colonial development. Instead, evangelization by White Fathers' Catholic missionaries began in the 1870s. By the 1950s, the missionaries had secured varying degrees of political, economic and social authority in the region, witnessed by the fact that the vast majority of Fipa had converted to Catholicism. Fipa Families examines how this happened from the Fipa perspective. Written primarily for scholars and students of African colonial history, mission history, and family and childhood history, this study is based on a rich collection of oral and documentary sources. Working with this wealth of information, Smythe breaks new ground in placing African social and moral concerns parallel to those of missionaries, resurrecting the study of the family (rather than kinship, lineage, or clan) within African history, and demonstrating at the level of the family and village the ways in which ideas of socialization, reproduction, and education were challenged and re-created in the colonial context in Ufipa.

DOI: 10.1336/0325071128 Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/E07112.aspx

Fipa Families: Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkansi, Ufipa, 1880-1960 Series: Social History of Africa Hardback, 236 pages, $89.95 Copyright ©2006, Heinemann ISBN: 0-325-07112-8 DOI: 10.1336/0325071128

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