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Keeping culture cle...
Keeping culture clean : 'nested redistribution' as a path to moral redemption in Kampala (Uganda)
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- Baral, Anna, 1984- (författare)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV),Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
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- 2023
- 2023
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Journal for Contemporary African Studies. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0258-9001 .- 1469-9397.
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Abstract
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- The restoration of precolonial authorities in contemporary Uganda has inspired the revival of practices constitutive of local identities. The article focuses on the role of (re)distribution in the formation of Ganda identity in the Buganda kingdom, by exploring the moral conundrums lived by workers in Kisekka Market (Kampala). The article describes two principles underpinning economic relations. First, it explores culturally approved patronage and downwards distribution which, given the pyramidal structure of society, translates simultaneously into forms of redistribution and the upward submission of subjects to a higher order (clans and kingdom). This two-way process is called 'nested redistribution'. Second, it shows how culturally approved forms of (re)distribution conflict with individual accumulation, culturally condemned but paradoxically key to afford redistribution itself. The ethnography describes how tensions between these principles are resolved, making use of the same categories (culture, morality) that engender them in the first place.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Redistribution
- informal economy
- buganda
- Kampala
- morality
- markets
- Kultursociologi
- Cultural Sociology
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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