Beginning with the myth of origin that joins every young Zaramo
woman to her origins as she is initiated into the secrets of life
and womanhood, the book then provides us with an historical account
of the Tanzanian coast around Dar es Salaam as a background to the
persistence of the cultural institutions to which the reader is
introduced. Statements and narrations by Salome as a representative
of the modern educated Zaramo people intersperse the author's
descriptions of the rituals of womanhood, of individual and social
healing, and of the ways conflict is symbolically manipulated and
managed. Rituals are seen in their vibrant role, not as remnants of
tradition, but as means of handling encroaching external pressures
on the community. These pressures include, commercialization of
livelihood, development thrust in the form of villagization, or the
ongoing process of losing land rights. The book shows that a people
will counteract the threat of social disintegration by
overemphasizing their core values in an attempt to create strong
communication forces and instruments of power. A good introduction
to contemporary African issues, Third World women's studies, and
ethnographic anthropology.
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