The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World - Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice

"This is an important ethnography, beautifully written and tightly conceived. It offers stunning ethnographic material and important theoretic reframings of exchange practices. Weiss establishes, the value of a person-centered, historically situated African ethnography and sets a new standard for clarity of exposition of complex contemporary issues in these terms."--Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College

List of contents

Acknowledgments vii

1. An Orientation to the Study 1

I. Making the World 27

2. "Evil Flee, Goodness Come In": Creating and Securing Domesticity 29

3. Heartplaces and Households: Haya Culinary Practices 51

4. Mealtime: Providing and Presenting a Meal 80

5. A Moral Gastronomy: Value and Action in the Experience of Food 127

II. The World Unmade 151

6. Plastic Teeth Extraction: An Iconography of Gastrosexual Affliction 155

7. "Buying Her Grave": Money, Movement, and AIDS 179

8. Electric Vampires: From Embodied Commodities to Commoditized Bodies 202

9. Conclusions: The Enchantment of the Disenchanted World 220

Notes 227

References 239

Index 247

About the author

Brad Weiss

Summary

Suitable for historians, anthropologists, ethnographers, and scholars of cultural studies, this book explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their community, and examines the forces that shape and transform these practices over time.

Product details

• Authors: Brad Weiss, Weiss, Brad Weiss
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.01.1996
• EAN: 9780822317258
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1725-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: 9 b&w photographs
• Series: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Anthropologie, Tansania