African Encounters with Domesticity / / Karen Tranberg Hansen.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
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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