The making and unmaking of the Haya lived world : consumption, commoditization, and everyday practice / Brad Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss, Brad.

Series:

Body, commodity, text.

Body, commodity, text

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haya (African people)--Economic conditions.

Haya (African people).

Haya (African people)--Commerce.

Haya (African people)--Food.

Philosophy, Haya.

Kagera Region (Tanzania)--Economic conditions.

Kagera Region (Tanzania).

Kagera Region (Tanzania)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and the producer of everyday practices. Drawing on his experience living with the Haya, Brad Weiss explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their community, and examines the forces that shape and transform these practices over time. In particular, he shows how the Haya, a group at the fringe of the global economy, have responded to the processes and material aspects of money, markets, and commodities as they make and remake their place in a changing world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1 An Orientation to the Study

I MAKING THE WORLD

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

3 Hearthplaces and Households: Haya Culinary Practices

4 Mealtime: Providing and Presenting a Meal

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

II THE WORLD UNMADE

6 Plastic Teeth Extraction: An Iconography of Gastrosexual Affliction

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

8 Electric Vampires: From Embodied Commodities to Commoditized Bodies

9 Conclusions: The Enchantment of the Disenchanted World

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-245) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822398493

0822398494

OCLC:

605266250