Del 41 - Church and Theology in Context

"I am just a Sukuma"

Globalization and Identity Construction in Northwest Tanzania

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

AvFrans Wijsen,Ralph Tanner

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Utgivningsdatum2002-01-01
Mått170 x 240 x 13 mm
Vikt446 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieDel 41 i Church and Theology in Context
Antal sidor236
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789042015883

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1 Culture and identity among the SukumaCultureIdentityCultural identityRelational theory of cultural identityReconstructing cultural identityCreated memory as a tool for the reconstruction of cultural identityA social system based on negotiationThe current past, a helpful phenomenonResistance to globalization2 Origin and growth of Sukuma identityThe historical identity of the Sukuma and the presentThe difficulty to discover a cultural paradigmThe pre-colonial fluidity of Sukuma political structuresSukuma society. An overview of change and reputed traditionThe neighbourhood and the familySukuma religious beliefs and practicesWitchcraft in UsukumaThe Sukuma and the cattle mentality3 The intrusions of colonialismThe misunderstanding of the Sukuma political structureIndirect rule and the SukumaThe British presence in UsukumaThe consequences of fixed administrative boundariesThe foundations for a centralized legal systemThe shadow of colonialism and the loss of ritual powerNo feel for the people. A political and administrative factColonial administration and the range of alternativesAttempts to stabilize custom in the colonial periodBureaucracy, development and the SukumaChristian missionaries and the recreation of cultureSukuma, British administrators and nationalist politics4 The hopes and frustrations of socialist ideologyThe effect of independence and its idealismThe establishment and growth of political nucleiThe irritations of civil servant activism in UsukumaPoliticians, administrators and unilineal developmentThe exclusion of Sukuma peasants from prestige‘Ujamaa’ and the making of villages in UsukumaThe culture shock of villagizationWomen's emerging resistance to male dominationThe mass killing of witches and wizards in UsukumaThe extension of a unified legal system to the control of customThe reassertion of customary law5 The Sukuma and the ideology of a free marketThe privatization of the cotton industry and mineral mining'Sungusungu' and the coming of a new eraDemocracy and the creation of public opinionAIDS and traditional ways of problem-solvingA free market and the growth of uncontrolled animositiesThe growing intrusion of time and money into Sukuma lifeThe Sukuma 'do-it-yourself religion and modernityModernization and the retention of identity6 Sukuma identity and modernizationThe illusion of theoretical model makingThe Sukuma paradigm. Some speculative thoughtsIs there a Sukuma identity, or who is a Sukuma?The recreation of tradition as an ongoing social necessityRejection of the fatal impact theorySukuma and urban-industrial societies similaritiesReferencesAbout the Authors

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