Summary and Review of "The Iraqw of Tanzania" and "Hunger and Shame"
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SummaryThe Iraqw of Tanzania, by Katherine Snyder, is a detailed ethnographic account of the affects of Maendeleo (progress and development) on the Iraqw people of northern Tanzania, shaped partially by the struggle between the young and the old to capture the true essence of Iraqw culture. However, she argues that they are not squarely against modernization in their area instead they adapt and often take an active role in the process while questioning what modernization means to them.
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- Snyder supplements her claims about Maendeleo among the Iraqw people of Tanzania with some typical ethnographic background.
- Snyder claims that regardless of all these changes many traditional practices remain rooted inside the culture.
- Katherine Snyder's ethnographic research on the Iraqw was fascinating to read through, partly because of the personal stories told throughout, but it was also slightly predictable.
- With all of that said, I very much enjoyed the combination of facts and analysis that Snyder provides especially the comparison of religions, old and new.
- This new cash economy also brought with it a large and ever growing income disparity, still small by our standards with the rich receiving up to 15,000 a year and the poor living on as little as 300 a year, but very demoralizing for the people.
- Hunger and Shame approaches the subject of malnutrition from an interesting and personal point of view, not blaming any particular system and denying the existence of a single solution to the immense problem.
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