ISBN:
9781139145701
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (200 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology v.112
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Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Priests, Witches and Power : Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania
DDC:
306.609676
Keywords:
Catholic Church ; Tanzania ; Ulanga District ; History ; 20th century
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Abstract:
This book discusses in a historical context how Christianity has been adopted in Southern Tanzania.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- 1 Global Christianity and the structure of power -- The anthropology of Christianity -- Civil society and rural Africa -- Rural power and modes of domination -- 2 Colonial conquest and the consolidation of marginality -- Historical geographies -- Ethnicity and inclusion in Ulanga -- Establishing marginality -- German colonialism and the East Africa company -- Impacts of war -- Indirect rule and the control of nature -- Independence and socialism. The nationalisation of poverty -- Policy continuity in the post-colonial period -- 3 Evangelisation in Ulanga -- Post-colonial continuities -- Conversion and power: the Benedictine conquest -- Capuchin expansion -- Promoting natural increase: the 'matrimonial agency business' -- The economics of mission -- 4 The persistence of mission -- The price of self reliance -- The 'religion of business' -- Legacies of mission -- Priests: businessmen or ritual specialists? -- 'African Europeans': the Africanisation of the clergy -- The post-missionary position -- 5 Popular Christianity -- Formal Christianity -- Giving a name -- Being Christian -- Blessings and powers -- Son, mother and spirits -- Remembering Christ -- Embodying Christianity -- 6 Kinshipand the creation of relationship -- Gender and female autonomy -- The Christian family -- The marriage process -- Descent and the matrilineal opportunity -- Constituting paternity -- Gender and power -- 7 Engendering power -- Gender as process -- Heat and life -- Managing power -- Unyago and the fertility of women -- Maiden of the inside -- The first cucumber seeds -- Bathing the mwali -- Containing female fertility -- 8 Women's work -- The bitterness of mourning -- Houses and women's space -- Burial -- The gradual removal of death -- Gender matters.
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