Karin Pallaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 88398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Pallaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Pallaver |
| SIGNATURE | PALLAVER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3670-0928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Colonial Currency Transition: A View from East Africa
Currency domains: A reflection on multiplicity and the money of people’s experience
Jane Guyer's primary focus in exploring money was on the"money of people's experience." Indeed, money is one of the most important things in people's everyday lives, having economic, cultural, and political values, that reveal much about the communities and societies that use it. Money is handled, saved, imagined, desired, created, and recreated by the people who employ it. Thus, money matters beyond the macroeconomic context in which it circulat…
Africa as Method: A Handbook of Sources and Epistemologies
From German East African Rupees to British East African Shillings in Tanganyika: The King and the Kaiser Side by Side
Pallaver situates German East Africa within the framework of the broader East African region as a way to illuminate the processes of currency standardization in the colonial context. The monetary geography of the region was determined first by the circulation of the rupee and later by Great Britain's interests to create a common currency for its East African colonies. Pallaver argues that transimperial, international, and regional contexts influe…
Monetary Transitions: Currencies, Colonialism and African Societies
Slaves, Porters, and Plantation Workers
This chapter analyses the major shifting patterns of migration in East Africa over the 19th century and in the early 20th century. The analysis is structured around four historical processes that produced major shifts in migration patterns in East Africa: (1) the development of the plantations on the coast and in Zanzibar; (2) the expansion of ivory exports to global markets; (3) the growth of urban centers in relation to long-distance trade; (4)…
Women’s Labor Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Global South Compared, 1800–2000
This article places the research findings on women’s work and gendered labor relations presented and discussed in this special issue in a broader and comparative perspective. We start by contextualizing and explaining main shifts and continuities in labor relations in sub-Saharan Africa in the last two hundred years. We then compare differences between women’s and men’s labor experiences and labor relations. To conclude we offer a comparative ana…
From Subsistence Farmers to Guardians of Food Security and Well-Being: Shifts and Continuities in Female Labor Relations in Tanzania (1800–2000)
This paper combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to provide a long-term analysis of the major shifts in the history of female labor relations in Tanzania from the late precolonial period to 2000. The first part of the paper focuses on the nature and quality of the available sources on the history of the population of Tanzania. The sources’ problems and limits are presented along with data on the population and its composition. The second…
A triangle: Spatial processes of urbanization and political power in 19th-century Tabora, Tanzania
This article aims to contribute to the study of the urbanization of caravan-related towns in 19th-century Tanzania by unpacking the way multiple settlements merged into a town that came to be known as Tabora. By following the development of the three settlements that formed Tabora—Kwikuru, Kwihara and Sokoni—this article shows how the urban structure of Tabora was shaped by its commercial role, by the presence of a political power that influenced…
What East Africans Got for Their Ivory and Slaves: The Nature, Working and Circulation of Commodity Currencies in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
A currency muddle: Resistance, materialities and the local use of money during the East African rupee crisis (1919-1923)
This article combines insights on colonial monetary policies and daily practices of money use, to discuss the impact of international monetary developments on the local usage of money during the rupee crisis in East Africa (1919–1923). To do so, the paper will follow two related lines of investigation. On one hand, it will analyse the protests against the depreciation of East African cents. Even if Africans were excluded from decision- making pro…
Money and Currency in African History
African peoples have managed multiple currencies, for all the classic four functions of money, for at least a thousand years: within each society's own circuits, in regional exchange, and across the continent's borders with the rest of the world. Given the materials of some of these currencies, and the general absence of formalized denominations until the colonial period, some early European accounts defined certain transactions as barter. The ma…
Currencies of the Swahili world
This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective and it is part of the Routledge Worlds Series. Each chapter offers a wealth of detail on an aspect of the region's past. The result is a book that allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to explore the diversity of the Swahili tradition, how Swahili society has changed over time, as well as how our understandings of the region have shifted since Swahili studies…
Paying in Cents, Paying in Rupees: Colonial Currencies, Labour Relations, and the Payment of Wages in Early Colonial Kenya
The introduction explains the purpose of this volume: to explain the development of labour relations by looking at the institutions pertaining to various economic resources in society: commodities, land, labour, and capital. Rather than looking at the effect of colonial institutions on economic growth and viewing labour in a static and generic manner, we want to establish a more precise relationship between colonial institutions and changing labo…
From Venice to East Africa: History, uses, and meanings of glass beads
The link between Europe and the rest of the world is often studied with Europe being the consumer of luxury commodities and Africa, America and Asia being the producers of exotic goods. As a consequence, very few studies have focused on Africans as consumers and very little attention has been paid to the ways in which consumer patterns in Africa were modified by the import of foreign goods, particularly by those commodities which were used as a m…
Labor Relations and Population Developments in Tanzania: Sources, Shifts, and Continuities from 1800 to 2000
This article analyzes trends in demography and labor relations in Tanzania for four cross-sections: 1800, 1900, 1950, and 2000. It discusses the quality and nature of the sources available on demography and labor relations in Tanzania for the aforementioned cross-sections. Subsequently, it reconstructs the main trends in the population size and composition, and connects them to the major shifts in labor relations in relation to the major historic…
The German Maps at the East Africana Collection, University Library of Dar Es Salaam
The documents originated by the German colonial administration in German East Africa are located in two main archives: the Tanzania National Archives in Dar es Salaam, where they are identified under the name “German Records,” and the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, where they are collected under the classification R 1001. This note aims to provide some general information regarding a part of the German Records, referred to as “German Maps,” which is col…
A currency muddle: Resistance, materialities and the local use of money during the East African rupee crisis (1919-1923)
This article combines insights on colonial monetary policies and daily practices of money use, to discuss the impact of international monetary developments on the local usage of money during the rupee crisis in East Africa (1919–1923). To do so, the paper will follow two related lines of investigation. On one hand, it will analyse the protests against the depreciation of East African cents. Even if Africans were excluded from decision- making pro…
Money and Currency in African History
African peoples have managed multiple currencies, for all the classic four functions of money, for at least a thousand years: within each society's own circuits, in regional exchange, and across the continent's borders with the rest of the world. Given the materials of some of these currencies, and the general absence of formalized denominations until the colonial period, some early European accounts defined certain transactions as barter. The ma…
A triangle: Spatial processes of urbanization and political power in 19th-century Tabora, Tanzania
This article aims to contribute to the study of the urbanization of caravan-related towns in 19th-century Tanzania by unpacking the way multiple settlements merged into a town that came to be known as Tabora. By following the development of the three settlements that formed Tabora—Kwikuru, Kwihara and Sokoni—this article shows how the urban structure of Tabora was shaped by its commercial role, by the presence of a political power that influenced…
From German East African Rupees to British East African Shillings in Tanganyika: The King and the Kaiser Side by Side
Pallaver situates German East Africa within the framework of the broader East African region as a way to illuminate the processes of currency standardization in the colonial context. The monetary geography of the region was determined first by the circulation of the rupee and later by Great Britain's interests to create a common currency for its East African colonies. Pallaver argues that transimperial, international, and regional contexts influe…
Labor Relations and Population Developments in Tanzania: Sources, Shifts, and Continuities from 1800 to 2000
This article analyzes trends in demography and labor relations in Tanzania for four cross-sections: 1800, 1900, 1950, and 2000. It discusses the quality and nature of the sources available on demography and labor relations in Tanzania for the aforementioned cross-sections. Subsequently, it reconstructs the main trends in the population size and composition, and connects them to the major shifts in labor relations in relation to the major historic…
The German Maps at the East Africana Collection, University Library of Dar Es Salaam
The documents originated by the German colonial administration in German East Africa are located in two main archives: the Tanzania National Archives in Dar es Salaam, where they are identified under the name “German Records,” and the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, where they are collected under the classification R 1001. This note aims to provide some general information regarding a part of the German Records, referred to as “German Maps,” which is col…
Labor Relations and Population Developments in Tanzania: Sources, Shifts, and Continuities from 1800 to 2000
This article analyzes trends in demography and labor relations in Tanzania for four cross-sections: 1800, 1900, 1950, and 2000. It discusses the quality and nature of the sources available on demography and labor relations in Tanzania for the aforementioned cross-sections. Subsequently, it reconstructs the main trends in the population size and composition, and connects them to the major shifts in labor relations in relation to the major historic…
From Venice to East Africa: History, uses, and meanings of glass beads
The link between Europe and the rest of the world is often studied with Europe being the consumer of luxury commodities and Africa, America and Asia being the producers of exotic goods. As a consequence, very few studies have focused on Africans as consumers and very little attention has been paid to the ways in which consumer patterns in Africa were modified by the import of foreign goods, particularly by those commodities which were used as a m…
Currencies of the Swahili world
This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective and it is part of the Routledge Worlds Series. Each chapter offers a wealth of detail on an aspect of the region's past. The result is a book that allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to explore the diversity of the Swahili tradition, how Swahili society has changed over time, as well as how our understandings of the region have shifted since Swahili studies…
Paying in Cents, Paying in Rupees: Colonial Currencies, Labour Relations, and the Payment of Wages in Early Colonial Kenya
The introduction explains the purpose of this volume: to explain the development of labour relations by looking at the institutions pertaining to various economic resources in society: commodities, land, labour, and capital. Rather than looking at the effect of colonial institutions on economic growth and viewing labour in a static and generic manner, we want to establish a more precise relationship between colonial institutions and changing labo…
Money and Currency in African History
African peoples have managed multiple currencies, for all the classic four functions of money, for at least a thousand years: within each society's own circuits, in regional exchange, and across the continent's borders with the rest of the world. Given the materials of some of these currencies, and the general absence of formalized denominations until the colonial period, some early European accounts defined certain transactions as barter. The ma…
What East Africans Got for Their Ivory and Slaves: The Nature, Working and Circulation of Commodity Currencies in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
A currency muddle: Resistance, materialities and the local use of money during the East African rupee crisis (1919-1923)
This article combines insights on colonial monetary policies and daily practices of money use, to discuss the impact of international monetary developments on the local usage of money during the rupee crisis in East Africa (1919–1923). To do so, the paper will follow two related lines of investigation. On one hand, it will analyse the protests against the depreciation of East African cents. Even if Africans were excluded from decision- making pro…
A triangle: Spatial processes of urbanization and political power in 19th-century Tabora, Tanzania
This article aims to contribute to the study of the urbanization of caravan-related towns in 19th-century Tanzania by unpacking the way multiple settlements merged into a town that came to be known as Tabora. By following the development of the three settlements that formed Tabora—Kwikuru, Kwihara and Sokoni—this article shows how the urban structure of Tabora was shaped by its commercial role, by the presence of a political power that influenced…
Monetary Transitions: Currencies, Colonialism and African Societies
Slaves, Porters, and Plantation Workers
This chapter analyses the major shifting patterns of migration in East Africa over the 19th century and in the early 20th century. The analysis is structured around four historical processes that produced major shifts in migration patterns in East Africa: (1) the development of the plantations on the coast and in Zanzibar; (2) the expansion of ivory exports to global markets; (3) the growth of urban centers in relation to long-distance trade; (4)…
Women’s Labor Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Global South Compared, 1800–2000
This article places the research findings on women’s work and gendered labor relations presented and discussed in this special issue in a broader and comparative perspective. We start by contextualizing and explaining main shifts and continuities in labor relations in sub-Saharan Africa in the last two hundred years. We then compare differences between women’s and men’s labor experiences and labor relations. To conclude we offer a comparative ana…
From Subsistence Farmers to Guardians of Food Security and Well-Being: Shifts and Continuities in Female Labor Relations in Tanzania (1800–2000)
This paper combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to provide a long-term analysis of the major shifts in the history of female labor relations in Tanzania from the late precolonial period to 2000. The first part of the paper focuses on the nature and quality of the available sources on the history of the population of Tanzania. The sources’ problems and limits are presented along with data on the population and its composition. The second…
From German East African Rupees to British East African Shillings in Tanganyika: The King and the Kaiser Side by Side
Pallaver situates German East Africa within the framework of the broader East African region as a way to illuminate the processes of currency standardization in the colonial context. The monetary geography of the region was determined first by the circulation of the rupee and later by Great Britain's interests to create a common currency for its East African colonies. Pallaver argues that transimperial, international, and regional contexts influe…
Africa as Method: A Handbook of Sources and Epistemologies
The Colonial Currency Transition: A View from East Africa
Currency domains: A reflection on multiplicity and the money of people’s experience
Jane Guyer's primary focus in exploring money was on the"money of people's experience." Indeed, money is one of the most important things in people's everyday lives, having economic, cultural, and political values, that reveal much about the communities and societies that use it. Money is handled, saved, imagined, desired, created, and recreated by the people who employ it. Thus, money matters beyond the macroeconomic context in which it circulat…
Geography (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works)