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• Ethnology -- Tanzania -- Mtwara Region
• Ethnology -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar
• Chaga (African people)
• Folklore -- Tanzania
• Gogo (African people)
• Haya (African people)
• Hehe (African people)
• Holoholo (African people)
• Indigenous peoples -- Tanzania
• Kuria (African people)
• Maasai (African people)
• Mamvu (African people)
• Meru (African people)
• Nandi (African people)
• Ngonde (African people)
• Nyamwezi (African people)
• Safwa (African people)
• Sandawe (African people)
• Shambala (African people)
• Swahili-speaking peoples
• Yao (African people)
• Zigula (African people)

• Ethnology -- Tanganyika

• Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE (c2008), by Rhonda M. Gonzales (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
• Two studies on ethnic group relations in Africa; Senegal, the United Republic of Tanzania. (Unesco, 1974), by Yash P. Ghai and Fatoumata Agnès Diarra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The spirit-ridden Konde; a record of the interesting but steadily vanishing customs & ideas gathered during twenty-four years' residence amongst these shy inhabitants of the Lake Nyasa region, from witch-doctors, diviners, hunters, fishers & every native source (Seeley, Service & Co., 1925), by Duncan R. Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Native life in East Africa; the results of an ethnological research expedition. (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by Karl Weule (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ethnological collections in the U.S. National Museum from Kiliman-Njaro, East Africa. (1891), by William Louis Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dichten und Denken der Dschagganeger : Beiträge zur ostafrikanischen Volkskunde (Evan.-Luth. Mission, 1909), by Bruno Gutmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur anthropologie des abflusslosen Rumpfschollenlandes im nordöstlichen Deutsch-Ostrafrika, auf Grund der Sammlung der Ostrafrika-expedition (Dr. E. Obst) der Geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg (L. Friederichsen & Co., 1915), by H. A. Ried and Geographische Gesellschaft in Hamburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kiziba, Land und Leute : eine Monographie (Strecker & Schröder, 1910), by Hermann Rehse and V. Luschan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beneath African glaciers; the humours, tragedies and demands of an East African government station as experienced by an official's wife: with some personal views on native life and customs (H. F. & G. Witherby, 1924), by Anne Louise Hay Dundas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aux rives du Tanganika : étude ethnographique couronnée par la Société de géographique de Paris (Imprimerie des Missionnaires d'afrique, 1913), by A. Lechaptois and Société de géographie (France) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negerleben in Ostafrika : Ergebnisse einer Ethnologischen Forschungsreise (in German), by Karl Weule (Gutenberg ebook)
• Native life in East Africa : the results of an ethnological research expedition, by Karl Weule, trans. by Alice Werner (Gutenberg ebook)

• In a Wounded Land: Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2024), by Vinay R. Kamat (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast (2 volumes; London: Tinsley, 1872), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page image files at burtoniana.org)
• Zanzibar: city, island, and coast. (Tinsley brothers, 1872), by Richard Francis Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 2 (of 2), by Richard Francis Burton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 1 (of 2), by Richard Francis Burton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Das recht der Dschagga (Beck, 1926), by Bruno Gutmann and Felix Emil Krueger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Dschaggaland und seine Christen (Evang.-Luther. Mission, 1925), by Bruno Gutmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Freies Menschentum aus ewigen Bindungen. (Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1928), by Bruno Gutmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mitteilungen über die Besiedelung des Kilimandscharo durch die Dschagga und deren Geschichte. (B.G. Teubner, 1913), by Johannes Schanz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Neun Dschagga-Märchen (Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, 1905), by Bruno Gutmann, A. von Lewinsky, and H. Fokken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Seelenleben der Dschagga-Neger. (Th. Blaesing's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1910), by Hans Schwanhäusser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kilimanjaro and its people; a history of the Wachagga, their laws, customs and legends, together with some account of the highest mountain in Africa. (H.F. & G. Witherby, 1924), by Charles Dundas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Swahili tales, as told by natives of Zanzibar (Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1922), by Edward Steere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Volksbuch der Wadschagga : Sagen, Märchen, Fabeln und Schwänke den Dschagganegern nacherzählt (Verlag der Evang.-Luth. Mission, 1914), by Bruno Gutmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dichten und Denken der Dschagganeger : Beiträge zur ostafrikanischen Volkskunde (Evan.-Luth. Mission, 1909), by Bruno Gutmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mentalités indigènes du Katanga (Plon-Nourrit ;, 1913), by Ferdinand Joseph Harfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Wagogo : ethnographische Skizze eines ostafrikanischen Bantustammes. (B. G. Teubner, 1968), by Heinrich Claus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kiziba, Land und Leute : eine Monographie (Strecker & Schröder, 1910), by Hermann Rehse and V. Luschan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Wahehe; ihre Geschichte, Kult-, Rechts-, Kriegs- und Jagd-Geräuche. (E. S. Mittler, 1908), by E Nigmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Quelques peuplades du Tanganika (Monnom, 1905), by Charles Godefroid Félix François Delhaise (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chez les Warundi et les Wahorohoro; moeurs, coutumes, reseignements ethnographiques. (Typo-lithographie générale, 1908), by Charles Godefroid Félix François Delhaise (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Treatment by the Germans of British prisoners and natives in German East Africa (H.M. Stationery Off. [Harrison and Sons, Printers], 1917), by Great Britain Foreign Office, James Scott-Brown, Ernest Frederick Spanton, and World War I Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tanganyika territory (formerly German East Africa) ; characteristics and potentialities (Appleton, 1921), by F. S. Joelson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Last of the Masai (London: W. Heinemann, 1901), by Sidney Langford Hinde and Hildegarde Hinde
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• Sultan to Sultan: Adventures Among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa (Boston: Arena Pub. Co.; London: Saxon and co., 1892), by Mary French Sheldon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men and Creatures in Uganda (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1933), by John Bland-Sutton (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• The Masai; their language and folklore (The Clarendon Press, 1905), by A. C. Hollis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A white woman among the Masai (T. F. Unwin, ltd., 1923), by Marguerite Mallett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Masai : ethnographische monographie eines ostafrikanischen semitenvolkes (Berlin : D. Reimer, 1910., 1910), by Moritz Merker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Afrikanische Parallelen zur biblischen Urgeschichte (s.n.], 1927), by A. J. Wagener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The last journals of Bishop Hannington, being narratives of a journey through Palestine in 1884 and a journey through Masai-land and U-Soga in 1885 (Seeley, 1888), by James Hannington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Masai; their language and folklore (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by Alfred Claud Hollis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sultan to sultan. Adventures among the Masai and other tribes of East Africa. (Arena Publishing Company;, 1892), by Mary French Sheldon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flashlights in the jungle, a record of hunting adventures and of studies in wild life in equatorial East Africa (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905), by C. G. Schillings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auf dem Kriegspfad gegen die Massai. Eine Frühlingsfahrt nach Deutsch-Ostafrika. (C. H. Beck'fche, 1892), by Friedrich Kallenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through Masăi land : a journey of exploration among the snowclad volcanic mountains and strange tribes of eastern equatorial Africa : being the narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's expedition to Mount Kenia and Lake Victoria Nyanza, 1883-1884 (S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885), by Joseph Thomson and Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Masai. Ethnographische Monographie eines ostafrikanischen Semitenvolkes. (D. Reimer, 1904), by M. Merker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The effect of cash cropping on food consumption adequacy among the Meru of northern Tanzania (Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, 1981), by Larry Lev (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nandi, their language and folk-lore (Clarendon Press, 1909), by A. C. Hollis and Charles Eliot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Nandi: their language and folk-lore (Negro Universities Press, 1971), by A. C. Hollis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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