Fragmented worlds, coherent lives : the politics of difference in Botswana / Pnina Motzafi-Haller ; foreword by John L. Comaroff.

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Motzafi-Haller, Pnina

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0313012954
9780313012952
1280908556
9781280908552

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fragmented worlds, coherent lives.DDC classification:

305.896/306883 22

LOC classification:

DT2458.T93 M67 2002eb

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Fragmented Lives -- Gender, Conjugality, and Family -- Making a Living, Making a Home -- Historical Narratives as Identity Discourses -- The Politics of Space and Place -- Social Space, Collective Identity, and Moments of Resistance -- Ethnicizing Gender, Engendering the Ethnic Other.

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Summary: In the context of fieldwork among the Tswapong people of Botswana, the author delivers a critical reflexive discussion that explores the tension between data recorded at a particular historical moment and the interpretive frames offered to make sense of such data. When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact a major land reform had on rural life in this impoverished African country, social theory and ethnographic practice seemed solid and convincing. A decade later, and again in 1999, she returned to Bostwana and to the Tswapong people whose lives she had shared, and she encountered not only a rapidly shifting social reality, but she also began to ask questions that stemmed from and were shaped by theoretical frames quite different from those she had employed in her earlier work. At the center of the narrative that runs through this study is a critical reflexive discussion that explores the tension between data recorded at a particular historical moment and the interpretive frames offered to make sense of such data.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-208) and index.

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In the context of fieldwork among the Tswapong people of Botswana, the author delivers a critical reflexive discussion that explores the tension between data recorded at a particular historical moment and the interpretive frames offered to make sense of such data. When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact a major land reform had on rural life in this impoverished African country, social theory and ethnographic practice seemed solid and convincing. A decade later, and again in 1999, she returned to Bostwana and to the Tswapong people whose lives she had shared, and she encountered not only a rapidly shifting social reality, but she also began to ask questions that stemmed from and were shaped by theoretical frames quite different from those she had employed in her earlier work. At the center of the narrative that runs through this study is a critical reflexive discussion that explores the tension between data recorded at a particular historical moment and the interpretive frames offered to make sense of such data.

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