Claiming Civic Virtue - Gendered Network Memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania (Hardcover)

Among communities in the Mara region of Tanzania, it is considered men's responsibility to maintain "history." But when Jan Bender Shetler's questions turned to specific familial connections within the village, she discovered her male informants had to occasionally leave the room-to ask their wives for clarification. The result is an original and wide-ranging investigation of the gendered nature of historical memory and its influence on the development of the region over the past 150 years. Shetler's exploration of these oral traditions and histories opens exciting new vistas for understanding how women and men in this culture tell their stories and assert their roles as public intellectuals-with important implications for research in African and gender studies, and the history of ethnicity and nationalism.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Women in Africa and the Diaspora
Release date:	July 2019
Authors:	Jan Bender Shetler
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-32290-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	0-299-32290-4
Barcode:	9780299322908

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