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Gossip, Markets, and Gender: How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
Tuulikki Pietila
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Description for Gossip, Markets, and Gender: How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
Hardcover. Shows how gossip and the responses to it form an ongoing dialogue through which the moral reputations of trading women and businessmen, and cultural ideas about moral value and gender, are constructed and rethought. This work reveals a different perspective on the globalization of the market economy and its meaning and impact on the local level. Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 b/w photos, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; GTB; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
All traders are thieves, especially women traders, people often assured social anthropologist Tuulikki Pietila during her field work in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in the mid-1990s. Equally common were stories about businessmen who had ""bought a spirit"" for their enrichment. Pietila places these and similar comments in the context of the liberalization of the Tanzanian economy that began in the 1980s, when many men and women found themselves newly enmeshed in the burgeoning market economy. Even as emerging private markets strengthened the position of enterprising people, economic resources did not automatically lead to heightened social position. Instead, social recognition remained tied to ... Read more
All traders are thieves, especially women traders, people often assured social anthropologist Tuulikki Pietila during her field work in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in the mid-1990s. Equally common were stories about businessmen who had ""bought a spirit"" for their enrichment. Pietila places these and similar comments in the context of the liberalization of the Tanzanian economy that began in the 1980s, when many men and women found themselves newly enmeshed in the burgeoning market economy. Even as emerging private markets strengthened the position of enterprising people, economic resources did not automatically lead to heightened social position. Instead, social recognition remained tied to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Women in Africa and the Diaspora
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299220907
SKU
V9780299220907
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About Tuulikki Pietila
Tuulikki Pietila is lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of numerous articles and essays on trade and gender issues in postcolonial Africa.
Reviews for Gossip, Markets, and Gender: How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
Explores important political and economic implications of gossip and markets. It will be very valuable to those interested in African gender and economies. - Gracia Clark, Indiana University, Bloomington