"I Am Just a Sakuma" : Globalization and Identity Construction in Northwestern Tanzania

Globalization and Identity Construction in Northwestern Tanzania

By: Frans Wijsen

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Contents: 1. Culture and identity among the Sukuma. - 2. Origin and growth of Sukuma identity. - 3. The intrusions of colonialism. - 4. The hopes and frustrations of socialist ideology. - 5. The Sukuma and the ideology of a free market. - 6. Sukuma identity and modernization.

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Introduction	p. 1
Culture and identity among the Sukuma	p. 4
Culture	p. 4
Identity	p. 12
Cultural identity	p. 15
Relational theory of cultural identity	p. 18
Reconstructing cultural identity	p. 22
Created memory as a tool for the reconstruction of cultural identity	p. 26
A social system based on negotiation	p. 28
The current past, a helpful phenomenon	p. 30
Resistance to globalization	p. 32
Origin and growth of Sukuma identity	p. 37
The historical identity of the Sukuma and the present	p. 37
The difficulty to discover a cultural paradigm	p. 41
The pre-colonial fluidity of Sukuma political structures	p. 44
Sukuma society. An overview of change and reputed tradition	p. 47
The neighbourhood and the family	p. 52
Sukuma religious beliefs and practices	p. 54
Witchcraft in Usukuma	p. 65
The Sukuma and the cattle mentality	p. 68
The intrusions of colonialism	p. 71
The misunderstanding of the Sukuma political structure	p. 71
Indirect rule and the Sukuma	p. 75
The British presence in Usukuma	p. 78
The consequences of fixed administrative boundaries	p. 80
The foundations for a centralized legal system	p. 83
The shadow of colonialism and the loss of ritual power	p. 88
No feel for the people. A political and administrative fact	p. 91
Colonial administration and the range of alternatives	p. 93
Attempts to stabilize custom in the colonial period	p. 97
Bureaucracy, development and the Sukuma	p. 100
Christian missionaries and the recreation of culture	p. 102
Sukuma, British administrators and nationalist politics	p. 105
The hopes and frustrations of socialist ideology	p. 109
The effect of independence and its idealism	p. 109
The establishment and growth of political nuclei	p. 113
The irritations of civil servant activism in Usukuma	p. 115
Politicians, administrators and unilineal development	p. 118
The exclusion of Sukuma peasants from prestige	p. 121
'Ujamaa' and the making of villages in Usukuma	p. 123
The culture shock of villagization	p. 127
Women's emerging resistance to male domination	p. 132
The mass killing of witches and wizards in Usukuma	p. 135
The extension of a unified legal system to the control of custom	p. 139
The reassertion of customary law	p. 142
The Sukuma and the ideology of a free market	p. 145
The privatization of the cotton industry and mineral mining	p. 145
'Sungusungu' and the coming of a new era	p. 147
Democracy and the creation of public opinion	p. 151
AIDS and traditional ways of problem-solving	p. 157
A free market and the growth of uncontrolled animosities	p. 162
The growing intrusion of time and money into Sukuma life	p. 170
The Sukuma 'do-it-yourself' religion and modernity	p. 173
Modernization and the retention of identity	p. 177
Sukuma identity and modernization	p. 185
The illusion of theoretical model making	p. 185
The Sukuma paradigm. Some speculative thoughts	p. 191
Is there a Sukuma identity, or who is a Sukuma?	p. 195
The recreation of tradition as an ongoing social necessity	p. 201
Rejection of the fatal impact theory	p. 208
Sukuma and urban-industrial societies similarities	p. 213
References	p. 221
About the authors	p. 229
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