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Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana

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Full Title:

Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana

Contributors:
ISBN:

9780897898812

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Praeger Publishers Inc

Publication Date:

30th July 2002

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Indigenous peoples
Social research and statistics

Dewey:

306.0899683

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

232

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 235mm

Weight:

369g

Description

In the context of fieldwork among the Tswapong people of Botswana, the author delivers a critical reflexive discussion that explores the tension between data recorded at a particular historical moment and the interpretive frames offered to make sense of such data. When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact a major land reform had on rural life in this impoverished African country, social theory and ethnographic practice seemed solid and convincing. A decade later, and again in 1999, she returned to Bostwana and to the Tswapong people whose lives she had shared, and she encountered not only a rapidly shifting social reality, but she also began to ask questions that stemmed from and were shaped by theoretical frames quite different from those she had employed in her earlier work. At the center of the narrative that runs through this study is a critical reflexive discussion that explores the tension between data recorded at a particular historical moment and the interpretive frames offered to make sense of such data.

Reviews

This highly readable thnography explores the variety of ways in which lives of the por and marginal in Africa are fragmented.-African Affairs
"This highly readable thnography explores the variety of ways in which lives of the por and marginal in Africa are fragmented."-African Affairs

Author Bio

PNINA MOTZAFI-HALLER is Senior Research Fellow at the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research and Lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel.

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