Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: Author provides a cultural-ecological interpretation of \nthe roles and place of women in two societies of Tanzania possessing two different \nsubsistence techniques. With a comparison/contrast of the two, this paper demonstrates \nthat the particular subsistence adaptation of a group towards a given environment can be \nshown to have definite links to the ways in which women function within that society. \nThe paper is divided into three main sections. The first discusses the ecology of the \nBadza, a hunter-gatherer society of northern Tanzania. Included in the section are a \ndescription of the physical characteristics of the Hadza environment, an overview of their \nsignificant social interactions past and present, and a discussion of the particular subsistence \ntechniques which the Hadza have adopted. The second section provides a parallel account \nof the ecology of the Kaguru agriculturalists of east central Tanzania. The third and final \nsection uses the ecological infonnation presented in the previous two studies to analyze \nseveral aspects of women and women's roles in these two societies. With the infonnation \nprovided by these examples, author shows the centrality of a group's subsistence mode to \nthe fonnation of its cultural attitudes and practices in regards to women.
Author: David Allen. Redd
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2235333796