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Title: | Domestic Realms, Social Bonds, and Class: Ideologies and Indigenizing Modernity in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
Author: | Lewinson, Anne S. |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 462-495 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | modernization architecture decorative arts dwellings social networks office workers political ideologies Development and Technology Economics and Trade Politics and Government Labor and Employment |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/25433905 |
Abstract: | Since the late 1950s, Tanzanians have experienced several forms of modernity, each form embodied in distinctive domestic architecture, interior décor and extra-household social networks. Drawing from accounts by office workers and participant observation during fieldwork in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1994-1995 and return visits in 2000 and 2003, the author investigates three Tanzanian forms of modernity. First, she discusses a colonial-capitalist version that linked class and homes into social categories, categories which have continued to influence office workers' ideas of modernity up until now. Next, she shows how a postindependence socialist model blended a partly imported, partly indigenous ideology to produce a set of notions about domestic realms which were lived out in distinctive ways by urbanites. Finally, she touches on a third version, liberalization, which emerged in the late 1990s. This version highlighted a globally derived set of practices and aesthetics yet also included local elements. The author shows how political ideology and economics, households and extra-household social relations reveal a distinct form of modernity in each era. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. [ASC Leiden abstract] |