The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice

by Brad Weiss

Book Overview

At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and the producer of everyday practices. Drawing on his experience living with the Haya, Brad Weiss explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their community, and examines the forces that shape and transform these practices over time. In particular, he shows how the Haya, a group at the fringe of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822317222
• ISBN13: 9780822317227
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"