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"I am just a Sukuma" : globalization and identity construction in northwest Tanzania / Frans Wijsen, Ralph Tanner.
Van Pelt Library DT443.3.S8 W55 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wijsen, Frans Jozef Servaas, 1956-
- Series:
- Kerk en theologie in context ; nr. 41.
- Kerk en theologie in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sukuma (African people)--Social life and customs.
- Sukuma (African people).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 Culture and identity among the Sukuma 4
- Relational theory of cultural identity 18
- Reconstructing cultural identity 22
- Created memory as a tool for the reconstruction of cultural identity 26
- A social system based on negotiation 28
- The current past, a helpful phenomenon 30
- Resistance to globalization 32
- 2 Origin and growth of Sukuma identity 37
- The historical identity of the Sukuma and the present 37
- The difficulty to discover a cultural paradigm 41
- The pre-colonial fluidity of Sukuma political structures 44
- Sukuma society. An overview of change and reputed tradition 47
- The neighbourhood and the family 52
- Sukuma religious beliefs and practices 54
- Witchcraft in Usukuma 65
- The Sukuma and the cattle mentality 68
- 3 The intrusions of colonialism 71
- The misunderstanding of the Sukuma political structure 71
- Indirect rule and the Sukuma 75
- The British presence in Usukuma 78
- The consequences of fixed administrative boundaries 80
- The foundations for a centralized legal system 83
- The shadow of colonialism and the loss of ritual power 88
- No feel for the people. A political and administrative fact 91
- Colonial administration and the range of alternatives 93
- Attempts to stabilize custom in the colonial period 97
- Bureaucracy, development and the Sukuma 100
- Christian missionaries and the recreation of culture 102
- Sukuma, British administrators and nationalist politics 105
- 4 The hopes and frustrations of socialist ideology 109
- The effect of independence and its idealism 109
- The establishment and growth of political nuclei 113
- The irritations of civil servant activism in Usukuma 115
- Politicians, administrators and unilineal development 118
- The exclusion of Sukuma peasants from prestige 121
- 'Ujamaa' and the making of villages in Usukuma 123
- The culture shock of villagization 127
- Women's emerging resistance to male domination 132
- The mass killing of witches and wizards in Usukuma 135
- The extension of a unified legal system to the control of custom 139
- The reassertion of customary law 142
- 5 The Sukuma and the ideology of a free market 145
- The privatization of the cotton industry and mineral mining 145
- 'Sungusungu' and the coming of a new era 147
- Democracy and the creation of public opinion 151
- AIDS and traditional ways of problem-solving 157
- A free market and the growth of uncontrolled animosities 162
- The growing intrusion of time and money into Sukuma life 170
- The Sukuma 'do-it-yourself' religion and modernity 173
- Modernization and the retention of identity 177
- 6 Sukuma identity and modernization 185
- The illusion of theoretical model making 185
- The Sukuma paradigm. Some speculative thoughts 191
- Is there a Sukuma identity, or who is a Sukuma? 195
- The recreation of tradition as an ongoing social necessity 201
- Rejection of the fatal impact theory 208
- Sukuma and urban-industrial societies similarities 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9042015888
- OCLC:
- 49956707
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