LEADER 03457nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910954141003321 005 20250204190522.0 010 $a9798400653469 010 $a9786610908554 010 $a9781280908552 010 $a1280908556 010 $a9780313012952 010 $a0313012954 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400653469 035 $a(CKB)111087028138748 035 $a(OCoLC)191935990 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10040737 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000157801 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155897 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157801 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10146007 035 $a(PQKB)11194951 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000912 035 $a(OCoLC)1439128062 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9798400653469BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087028138748 100 $a20240612e20022024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives $eThe Politics of Difference in Botswana /$fPnina Motzafi-Haller 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSanta Barbara :$cPraeger,$d2002. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (231 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780897898805 311 08$a089789880X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [194]-208) and index. 327 $aForeword Introduction Fragmented Lives Gender, Conjugality, and Family Making a Living, Making a Home Historical Narratives as Identity Discourses The Politics of Space and Place Social Space, Collective Identity, and Moments of Resistance Ethnecizing Gender, Engendering the Ethnic Other Conclusions Bibliography Index 330 $aExplores the meaning of writing in the post postmodernist moment when master narratives have been questioned and the very act of representing others has been problematized, and discusses some of the key theoretical debates emerging in the aftermath of what came to be known as the postmodernist crisis. When the author first went to Botswana in the early 1980s to study the impact a major land reform had on rural life in this impoverished African country, social theory and ethnographic practice seemed solid and convincing. A decade later, and again in 1999, she returned to Bostwana and to the Tswapong people whose lives she had shared, and she encountered not only a rapidly shifting social reality, but she also began to ask questions that stemmed from and were shaped by theoretical frames quite different from those she had employed in her earlier work. At the center of the narrative that runs through this study is a critical reflexive discussion that explores the tension between data recorded at a particular historical moment and the interpretive frames offered to make sense of such data. 606 $aSocial change$zBotswana 606 $aTswapong (African people)$xSocial conditions 606 $aSociology$2bicssc 607 $aBotswana$xPolitics and government 615 0$aSocial change 615 0$aTswapong (African people)$xSocial conditions 615 7$aSociology 676 $a305.896/306883 700 $aMotzafi-Haller$b Pnina$0883609 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954141003321 996 $aFragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives$94521972 997 $aUNINA