Bücher von Pat Caplan

A biography of a teacher, charity leader, activist and guardian of extended family who lived through changes from colonialism to independence, socialism to neoliberalism, and local Swahili Islam to a more globalized form. Showing how historical processes impacted on Mikidadi, this counters recent rewritings of Tanzania's post-colonial history.

Specialists from the field of the anthropology of law and disputing behaviour examine how people in a variety of social settings, ranging from Ireland to East Africa, deal with quarrels and seek to resolve or accommodate them.

Deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, literature and political economy, the author discusses the relationship between food and entitlement, gender, notions of the body and development.