Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations and Tables
1. IntroductionRwanda and the Field Sites
2. Making Bricks and Roof Tiles in Rwanda: Technology and Process
3. Making Bricks and Roof Tiles in Rwanda: Labor Organization
4. Land Tenure, Common Property, and Labor and Power: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Transformations
5. "Your Patron Begets You": Household Reproduction, Gender and Domestic Relations, and Access to Family Labor
6. Loose Women, Virtuous Wives, and Timid Virgins: Class, Gender, and the Control of Resources
7. Brickyards Turn to Graveyards
Appendix A. Various Chronologies for the Rwandan Kings
Appendix B. European Contact and the German Colonial Period
Appendix C. The Belgian Colonial Period1
Appendix D. Prestations, Corvées, Taxes, and Obligations (18981940)
Notes
Bibliography
Index