1st Edition

The Iraqw of Tanzania Negotiating Rural Development

By Katherine A. Snyder Copyright 1995
211 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

In The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development author Katherine Snyder focuses on how the Iraqw perceive, respond to, and affect development in Tanzania. Snyder 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 also considers how issues of development play out between elders and juniors, men and... Read more
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

Biography

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.