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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Foreword by the Series Editors: Social Science Approaches to Africa -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Question -- 1.2 Structure of the Book -- References -- 2: Societal Impact of Gift Practices -- 2.1 Marcel Mauss: "The Famous Unknown" -- 2.2 Marcel Mauss' Theory of Commitment -- Kula, Potlatsch and the Hau -- 2.3 The Three Characteristics of the Binding Gift -- The Gift of a "Fait Social Total" -- The Triad of Give, Take, Reciprocate -- The Giver in the Given -- References -- 3: Research Procedure -- 3.1 Sociological Ethnography as a Research Basis |
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3.2 Field Research in Tanzania -- First Fieldwork Trip: Field Access and Exploratory Field Research -- Second Fieldwork Trip: Expert Interviews and Guided Interviews -- Third Field Trip: Dense Description and Narrative-Ethnographic Interviews -- Fourth Fieldwork Trip: Communicative Validation -- Data Evaluation and Analysis -- 3.3 Effects of "Getting Involved" -- References -- 4: Smallholder Life in Transition -- 4.1 The End of Seclusion -- 4.2 The Two Faces of Namtumbo -- 4.3 Traditional Farmsteads and Ways of Life in Transition -- 4.4 Nutrition from One's Own |
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4.5 Cultivation for the Market and Its Consequences -- References -- 5: Seeds in Namtumbo: Resource or Social Good? -- 5.1 Introduction of Commercial Seed Through the Formal Seed System -- 5.2 The Importance of the Farmer Seed System -- 5.3 Farmers' Seed Reproduction -- Seed Selection -- Seed Deposit -- Preparation of the Seed for Sowing -- Sowing -- 5.4 Seeds: A Resource for Women -- References -- 6: Seed Purchase via Social Networks -- 6.1 Forms of Seed Exchange -- 6.2 Confidence in Foreign Seed -- 6.3 Seed Giving: Emergency Insurance and Relationship Builder -- References |
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7: "Those Who Sell Seeds Forget Their Humanity" -- 8: "Agriculture Is for Those Who Have No Education" -- 9: Concluding Remarks: Smallscale Farmers' Survival in a Monetized World -- Reference -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of smallholder life worlds. Using the example of seeds, the close interweaving of agricultural and social practice is traced and it is worked out how individual processes of modernisation brought in from outside have far-reaching consequences for smallholder coexistence. The study provides a concrete, detailed and differentiated account of everyday farming life and how smallholder households deal with seeds. A particular focus is on seed exchange relationships and how these provide both social security and social cohesion in the study region. The study is based on extensive field research and intensive interviews with farmers, who also have their own say in the work. The author Dr. Jonas Metzger conducts research on social transformation processes in Southern Africa and East Africa at the Institute of Sociology at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation |
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Economics |
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Business & Economics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 14, 2023) |
| Subject |
Seed industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Tanzania
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Farms, Small -- Tanzania
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Seed exchanges -- Social aspects -- Tanzania
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Farms, Small
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Seed industry and trade -- Social aspects
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Tanzania
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3658400110 |
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9783658400118 |
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