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Iraqw of Tanzania - Negotiating Rural Development

English · Hardback

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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
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 13.09.2019
 
EAN 9780367318611
ISBN 978-0-367-31861-1
No. of pages 211
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)

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