ISBN:
978-91-513-1114-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
ISSN:
0348-5099
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (264 Seiten, 3 MB)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology no 59
Keywords:
Tansania Nyamwezi
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Sukuma
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Soziale Bewegung
;
Frieden
;
Konflikt
;
Identität
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Ethnographie
;
Geschichte, nachkoloniale
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Abstract:
This rich and detailed ethnographic study analyses the formation and spread of the Sungusungu movement that arose in the early 1980s among the Sukuma-Nyamwezi people in west-central Tanzania, south of Lake Victoria. In the wake of the international oil crisis in the 1970s, aggravated by the costly war with Uganda, Tanzania experienced a peroiod of deep economic and social crisis with inflation, collapsing markets, a shortage of basic commodities and a breakdown of law and order; signified by increasing levels of violent crime, such as organized cattle theft and banditry in the rural areas. Against this backdrop, people began to organize and arm themselves to cope with the disintegrating and malevolent forces they were experiencing, not only as an existential threat to their daily lives but to society at large, The quest for everday peace (mhola) was omnipresent when the Sungusungu movement swept like a bush-fire from village to villlage. Within only a couple of years, several million people were involved in or at least affected by the Sungusungu movement, whose emergence constituted a generic moment that sparked a process with far-reaching social, political and judicial repercussions. Based on long-term filedwork engagements and extensive literature review, Per Brandström analyses the trajectory of the movement from its early emergence as a genuine localized popular movement to an institution for community policing under state supervision and control. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Preamble - Serendipity -- 1. What can we know and how to interpret? -- 2. Voices from the field -- 3. The beginnings and the people -- 4. Broadening the perspective -- 5. Who is a Sukuma and who is a Nyamwezi? -- 6. Do ethnicity and culture matter? -- 7. Yearning for mhola-- 8. From social movement to state-sanctioned institution -- 9. Sungusungu beyond its area of origin -- 10. The end of Sungusungu? -- 11. Forging political culture - colonial and postcolonial legacies -- 12 "We were just told" -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 239-255
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