African Encounters with Domesticity / / Karen Tranberg Hansen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hansen, Karen Tranberg,
• MitwirkendeR: Bujra, Janet M.,; Comarojf, Jean,; Comarojf, John L.,; Denzer, LaRay,; Hunt, Nancy Rose,; Mack, Beverly B.,; Moran, Mary H.,; Musisi, Nakanyike B.,; Ranchod-Nilsson, Sita,; Schmidt, Elizabeth,; Sheldon, Kathleen,; Tranberg Hansen, Karen,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

Anthropologists usually think of domesticity as the activities related to the home and the family. Such activities have complex meanings associated with the sense of space, work, gender, and power. The contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examine how indigenous African notions of domesticity interact with Western notions to transform the meaning of such activities. They explore the interactions of notions of domesticity in a number of settings in the twentieth century and the kinds of personal troubles and public issues these interactions have provoked. They also demonstrate that domesticity, as it emerged in Africa through the colonial encounter, was culturally constructed, and they show how ideologies of work, space, and gender interact with broader political-economic processes. In her introduction, Hansen explains how the meaning of domesticity has changed and been contested in the West, specifies which of these shifting meanings are relevant in the African context, and summarizes the historical processes that have affected African ideologies of domesticity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Domesticity in Africa -- Part 1: Varieties of African Domesticity -- 1. Home-Made Hegemony: Modernity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in South Africa -- 2. Harem Domesticity in Kano, Nigeria -- 3. Civilized Servants: Child Fosterage and Training for Status among the Glebo of Liberia -- 4. Domestic Science Training in Colonial Yorubaland, Nigeria -- Part 2: Domestic Encounters -- 5. Colonial Fairy Tales and the Knife and Fork Doctrine in the Heart of Africa -- 6. Colonial and Missionary Education: Women and Domesticity in Uganda, 1900-1945 -- 7. "Educating Eve": The Women's Club Movement and Political Consciousness among Rural African Women in Southern Rhodesia, 1950-1980 -- Part 3: Race, Class, Gender, and Domestic Work -- 8. Race, Sex, and Domestic Labor: The Question of African Female Servants in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1939 -- 9. Men at Work in the Tanzanian Home: How Did They Ever Learn? -- 10. Cookstoves and Charcoal Braziers: Culinary Practices, Gender, and Class in Zambia -- 11. Creches, Titias, and Mothers: Working Women and Child Care in Mozambique -- Index