Work and Control in a Peasant Economy

Elias C. Mandala is associate professor of history at the University of Rochester.

“In the context of existing historiography, Work and Control in a Peasant Economy represents a new level of excellence in the in-depth study of portions of rural southern Africa. Madala’s will be a book to emulate—if one can. Anything comparable would have to demonstrate excellent linguistic knowledge and a total absorption of all the anthropological material relevant to such a history.”—Jan Vansina, University of Wisconsin–Madison