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Northwestern Tanzania On A Single Shilling: Sociality, Embodiment, Valuation, Brad Weiss Aug 1997

Northwestern Tanzania On A Single Shilling: Sociality, Embodiment, Valuation, Brad Weiss

Arts & Sciences Articles

The process of fermenting banana juice and ground millet into banana beer is an elaborate craft, practiced and appreciated by Haya men. As is the case in many African communities where the plenitude and desirability of beer is intimately connected with, if not indistinguishable from, the establishment and vigor of sociality itself, Haya brewers and drinkers are scrupulously attentive to the details of this often lengthy procedure (Carlson 1989; Karp 1980; Taylor 1991).' Many told me of their concern that jealous neighbors or sorcerers (often one and the same in Haya neighborhoods) would spoil their efforts by pouring kerosene into …


Objects And Bodies: Some Phenomenological Implications Of Knowledge And Practice In Mayotte, Brad Weiss Jul 1997

Objects And Bodies: Some Phenomenological Implications Of Knowledge And Practice In Mayotte, Brad Weiss

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

Grounded in collective interactions that are often quite contentious, knowledge is formulated in the world (objectified), and tangibly experienced (embodied) by the agents engaged in these interactions. As a means of acting on the world in order to transform it, knowledge is implicitly powerful. Yet, the consequences of that power are only realized through the context in which they are carried out. Thus, the ambiguous character of such knowledge must be evaluated by social agents in the course of their activities. By drawing attention to these dimensions of knowledge as power which enable social agents to act on, and so …


Religion And Resistance: African Baptist Churches In Virginia, Stephanie Rosel Reiss Jan 1997

Religion And Resistance: African Baptist Churches In Virginia, Stephanie Rosel Reiss

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Imaging And Imagining The Past: The Use Of Illustrations In The Interpretation Of Structural Development At The King's Castle, Castle Island, Bermuda, Heather Maureen Harvey Jan 1997

Imaging And Imagining The Past: The Use Of Illustrations In The Interpretation Of Structural Development At The King's Castle, Castle Island, Bermuda, Heather Maureen Harvey

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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When There's Nothing Better To Eat: Subsistence Strategies In Eighteenth Century Bermuda, Sondra Aileen Jarvis Jan 1997

When There's Nothing Better To Eat: Subsistence Strategies In Eighteenth Century Bermuda, Sondra Aileen Jarvis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Reflections Of Social Change: Burial Patterns In Colonial Fairfax County, Virginia, Kimberly Joyce Wells Jan 1997

Reflections Of Social Change: Burial Patterns In Colonial Fairfax County, Virginia, Kimberly Joyce Wells

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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