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Pratt, Marion.

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Women who eat men's money: Ecology, culture, gender relations, and the fishing economy on the western shore of Lake Victoria.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women who eat men's money: Ecology, culture, gender relations, and the fishing economy on the western shore of Lake Victoria./
Author:	Pratt, Marion.
Description:	307 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-09, Section: A, page: 3633.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9543974

Women who eat men's money: Ecology, culture, gender relations, and the fishing economy on the western shore of Lake Victoria.
Pratt, Marion.

Women who eat men's money: Ecology, culture, gender relations, and the fishing economy on the western shore of Lake Victoria. - 307 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-09, Section: A, page: 3633.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 1996.

Using multidisciplinary evidence and data drawn from field surveys and participant observation, this dissertation (1) describes the fishing economy of Kagera Region, northwest Tanzania; (2) analyzes local women's growing involvement in that economy; and (3) places their involvement in historical perspective.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Anthropology, Cultural.

Women who eat men's money: Ecology, culture, gender relations, and the fishing economy on the western shore of Lake Victoria.
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500 $a Adviser: Neville Dyson-Hudson.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 1996.
520 $a Using multidisciplinary evidence and data drawn from field surveys and participant observation, this dissertation (1) describes the fishing economy of Kagera Region, northwest Tanzania; (2) analyzes local women's growing involvement in that economy; and (3) places their involvement in historical perspective.
520 $a Haya peoples of Kagera Region belong to highly stratified, patriarchal societies once ruled by kings. According to customary ideals, Haya women should remain at home, caring for the family plantations and children. Because of the low fertility of unimproved local soils, these women generate limited personal income through agricultural activities. Until recently, women were also little involved in fisheries activities, because (1) before the 1950s, the local fishery was not commercially important; (2) war parties from kingdoms in Uganda frequently raided the western shore; and (3) dangerous wild animals inhabited the beaches and inshore waters.
520 $a In the 1950s, however, the introduction of the predatory Nile perch into Lake Victoria transformed the local fishery into a valuable sector of the regional economy. Information gathered through household surveys, oral histories, and archival documents revealed that the elimination of inter-kingdom warfare and wild animals during the colonial period, in combination with the emergence of new opportunities in the improved fishery, encouraged women to become involved in fisheries activities.
520 $a However, a comparative study of local fish processors indicates that women's limited access to training, capital, and labor has hindered them from gaining full control of benefits they derive from the male-dominated fishing economy. Their limitations stem from the local cultural emphasis on women's customary domestic and reproductive roles.
520 $a The role of Haya women as fish processors is the most recent example in a series of ascribed and achieved religious, social, and economic positions assumed by some Haya women throughout the turbulent history of Kagera Region. These roles transformed both the lives of individual women and their families, and the nature and organization of local gender relations. Using gender as the main parameter of analysis, this study demonstrates how the comparative examination of multidisciplinary, site-specific data can improve our understanding of the complex nature of gender relations in sub-Saharan Africa.
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