Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana
Explores 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...
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Motzafi-Haller explores the meaning of writing when master narratives have been questioned and representing "others" has been problematized.
ForewordAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction11Fragmented Lives152Gender, Conjugality, and Family313Making a Living, Making a Home534Historical Narratives as Identity Discourses815The Politics of Space and Place1136Social Space, Collective Identity, and Moments of Resistance1337Ethnicizing Gender, Engendering the Ethnic Other1578Conclusions189Bibliography195Index209
