An Ethnography of Hunger (eBook)

Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun

KRISTIN PHILLIPS (Autor)

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2018
242 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03839-5 (ISBN)

Infos

1. This book tells a complex story about food security, rural livelihoods, and community development among subsistence farmers in Tanzania. It tells a powerful story about tenacious survival.

2. A secondary storyline in the book is the coming to power of Tanzania's most controversial opposition politician, Tundu Lissu, in 2010 (currently Chief Opposition Whip in Parliament), in a relatively obscure pro-ruling party constituency in Central Tanzania (Singida East). This story has not been told widely elsewhere and it is growing in significance with Lissu's continually increasing influence and fame. There was an assassination attempt on Lissu in September 2017, which is raising questions about the current direction of Tanzanian politics under current President Magufuli.

3. In addition to a broad audience among scholars in contemporary African studies, anthropologists working on humanitarianism, hunger, NGOs, Africa, and globalization, and international studies scholars, this book is written to be accessible for undergraduate students and has strong potential for course adoption sales.

Autor

Kristin D. Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. Her work has appeared in African Studies Review, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology, Comparative Education Review, and Critical Studies in Education.

Inhalt

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Subsistence Citizenship

PART I: The Frames of Subsistence in Singida: Cosmology, Ethnography, History

Chapter 1 Hunger in Relief: Village Life and Livelihood

Chapter 2 The Unpredictable Grace of the Sun:

Cosmology, Conquest, and the Politics of Subsistence

PART II: The Power of the Poor on the Threshold of Subsistence

Chapter 3 We Shall Meet at the Pot of Ugali:

Sociality, Differentiation, and Diversion in the Distribution of Food

Chapter 4 Crying, Denying, and Surviving Rural Hunger

PART III: Subsistence Citizenship

Chapter 5 Subsistence versus Development

Chapter 6 Patronage, Rights, and the Idioms of Rural Citizenship

Conclusion: The Seasons of Subsistence and Citizenship

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Framing the Global
• Reihe/Serie: Framing the Global
• Reihe/Serie: Framing the Global
• Zusatzinfo: 8 color illus., 19 b&w illus., 1 map
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Abderrahmane Sissako • Africa • Agrarian change • Agriculture • Amartya Sen • An Ethnography of Hunger • annual cycle • anti-famine contract • Arjun Appadurai • Asocial Equalities • banality of hunger • Beer • British colonialism • Bureaucracy • Cattle Disease • Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) • Chinua Achebe • Christianity • Claims-making • Code-mixing • Code-switching • Code-Switching, Patronage, Claims-making, Singida, Safety-First, Political Subjectivity, Geography, Rural, Landscape, Annual Cycle, Ethnography, Nyaturu, Christianity, Social Structure, Gender, Beer • Coercion • commodification • community development • ConQuest • Cosmology • Democracy • dependency • Development • Differentiation • Divining • Division • Drought • economy • Education • Employment • entitlement • ethnography • Exchange • famine • Famine Policy • Famine Relief • Famine Relief, Commodification, Money, Market, Great Depression, Cattle Disease, Dependency, Famine Policy, Self-Reliance, self-sufficient, Drought, Ujamaa, Multipartyism, Religion • food aid • food distribution • food security • Forced Contributions • Forced Contributions, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Voluntarism, Self-Help, Chinua Achebe, Parliament, taxation, Rights-Based Politics, Political Subjectivity, Coercion, Abderrahmane Sissako • Forced Labor • Gender • Generational change • Generational Change, Agrarian Change, Exchange, Millet, Maize, Sorghum, Social Life of Food, Staple Crops, Beer, Gift, Exchange, Entitlement, Amartya Sen, Arjun Appadurai, Reciprocity, Identity, Kinship • Geography • German Colonialism • Gift • Globalization • Grain • Grain, Social Norms, Imaa, Patron-Client Relations, democracy, gift, paternalism, suffering, anti-famine contract, bureaucracy, Politics of the Belly, Tundu Lissu, Jakaya Kikwete, Michango • Great Depression • Hunger • Identity • Imaa • Inequality • Infrastructure • Islam • IUP, IU Press, Indiana University Press, globalization, hunger, development, poverty, politics, Africa, Tanzania, subsistence, Singida, village, village life, work, livelihood, occupation, employment • Jakaya Kikwete • kinship • Kristin Phillips • Landscape • La Vie sur Terre • La Vie sur Terre, Life on Earth, Salif Keita, Infrastructure, Obligations, Political Culture, Asocial Equalities, Code-Mixing, An Ethnography of Hunger, Kristin Phillips • life on Earth • Livelihood • Maize • Market • marriage • Materiality • Michango • Millet • MONEY • Multipartyism • Nation • Neoliberalism • Nyaturu • nyerere • obligations • Occupation • Oral tradition • parliament • Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) • Pastoralism • paternalism • Patrilineality • Patronage • patron-client relations • Peasants • Political culture • Political Subjectivity • Politics • Politics of the Belly • Poor • Poverty • poverty: Tanzania • Prayer to the Sun • Precarity • Rain-Making • Reciprocity • Religion • Representation • resistance • resource distribution • rights • Rights-Based Politics • rights, food security, inequality, precarity, peasants, Materiality, Subjectivity, the State, Representation, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), Nation, Rural • Rimi • Ritual • Rural • Safety-First • Salif Keita • Self-Help • Self-reliance • self-sufficient • Singida • Social • Socialism • Sociality • Social Life of Food • Social norms • Social Structure • Society • sorghum • Staple Crops • Subjectivity • subsistence • Suffering • Tanganyika • Tanganyika, Nyerere, Socialism, Prayer to the Sun, Cosmology, Conquest, Famine, Oral Tradition, Ukuta Yuva, Pastoralism, Ritual, Divining, Taxation, Forced Labor, Resistance, Education, Food Aid • Tanzania • Taxation • the State • The Unpredictable Grace of the Sun • The Unpredictable Grace of the Sun, Ugali, social, society, sociality, differentiation, division, food distribution, resource distribution, poor, working poor, community development, development • Tundu Lissu • Ugali • ujamaa • Ukuta Yuva • Village • village life • Villagization • Villagization, Marriage, Kinship, Religion, Economy, Agriculture, Pastoralism, Patrilineality, Islam, Drought, Rain-Making, banality of hunger, Nyaturu, Rimi, German Colonialism, British Colonialism • voluntarism • Work • Working Poor
• ISBN-10: 0-253-03839-1 / 0253038391
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03839-5 / 9780253038395