Brad Weiss

The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World

Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This is an important ethnography, beautifully written and tightly conceived. It offers stunning ethnographic material and important theoretic reframings of exchange practices. Weiss establishes, the value of a person-centered, historically situated African ethnography and sets a new standard for clarity of exposition of complex contemporary issues in these terms."--Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780822317227
• ISBN-10: 0822317222
• Artikelnr.: 21165836

Autorenporträt

Brad Weiss is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
1. An Orientation to the Study 1
I. Making the World 27
2. "Evil Flee, Goodness Come In": Creating and Securing Domesticity 29
3. Heartplaces and Households: Haya Culinary Practices 51
4. Mealtime: Providing and Presenting a Meal 80
5. A Moral Gastronomy: Value and Action in the Experience of Food 127
II. The World Unmade 151
6. Plastic Teeth Extraction: An Iconography of Gastrosexual Affliction 155
7. "Buying Her Grave": Money, Movement, and AIDS 179
8. Electric Vampires: From Embodied Commodities to Commoditized Bodies 202
9. Conclusions: The Enchantment of the Disenchanted World 220
Notes 227
References 239
Index 247