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| Title: | 'Her Name is Kamundage': Rethinking Women and Property among the Haya of Tanzania |
| Author: | Manji, Ambreena |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
| Volume: | 70 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 482-500 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | Haya customary law land law women Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Law, Human Rights and Violence Women's Issues Cultural Roles Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Sex Roles |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1161070 |
| Abstract: | This article introduces three models by which it is possible to interpret women's relations to property and which may be described as the structuralist model, the interactionist model and the entitlement model. By reference to fieldwork carried out among the Haya in the Kagera region of Tanzania in 1997, the article demonstrates the shortcomings and strengths of each model in explaining women's relation to land. It argues that none of the models taken alone is adequate fully to explain the range of ways in which women interact with property in Kagera nor their experiences of struggling over land. The entitlement model offers the greatest scope for understanding the norms which affect women's relation to property. However, the model must be adjusted in certain respects; there must be a better understanding of the effects of resistance and a conceptualization of how norms are generated. Drawing on the concept of legal pluralism, the author therefore attempts to construct a more sophisticated entitlement model which would make it possible to locate the diversity of social and legal influences on women's property relations. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. |
