Iraqw of Tanzania - Negotiating Rural Development

Snyder focuses on how the Iraqw perceive, respond to, and affect development in Tanzania. She explores how the ideology of development affects people's actions, from what crops to plant, to what to wear and do at their weddings, and considers too how issues of development play out between elders and juniors, men and women, and wealthy and poor.

List of contents

Series Editor Preface -- "Progress Is a Long Journey" -- Constructing a Homeland -- "Like Water and Honey" -- The Ties of Blood and Bones -- The Making of Men and Women -- These Days There is no Milk -- Cosmology and Morality -- Mediating Maendeleo -- Pollution and Ritual -- Praying for Harmony

About the author

Katherine A. Snyder is assistant professor of anthropology at Queens College, CUNY. She specializes in development, globalization, gender, religion, and agrarian change in East Africa.

Summary

Snyder focuses on how the Iraqw perceive, respond to, and affect development in Tanzania. She explores how the ideology of development affects people's actions, from what crops to plant, to what to wear and do at their weddings, and considers too how issues of development play out between elders and juniors, men and women, and wealthy and poor.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Snyder, Katherine A Snyder, Katherine A. Snyder, Snyder Katherine, Snyder Katherine A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367318611
• ISBN: 978-0-367-31861-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Case Studies in Anthropology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Tanzania, Rural communities, Development Studies, Rural communities / rural life