Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique : 1945-1975
Jeanne Marie. Penvenne
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Suffolk : : Boydell & Brewer, , 2015.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (303 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; Mozambican women and the cashew economy; Historical context; The Cashew economy and the cashew shellers; The people & the place; The process; The challenges of women's history and oralcy; History, memory and statist narratives; Structure and arguments; 1 A Century of Contestation around Cashews; From first fruits to Tarana; Cashew anatomy: Apples, nuts, kernels and liquid toxins; Southern Mozambique's cashew orchard; Cashews in the context of family agriculture. - Rural women without men: Layered ironies of the Limpopo schemeMen in women's migration: 'Go to Tarana! You will forget your suffering!'; Death and misfortune; The solidarity of siblings and hahánis; 4 Lives around Livelihoods: 'Children Are Not Like Chickens'; Childcare dilemmas; Leveraging discounted wages: Vales, chitikis and biscates; Resilient and collaborative households; Joana Tinga Chilaule: '… Someone had to look after those children.'; Raquelina Machava: 'Our mothers suffered to hold together their marriage.'; Poverty, humiliation and isolation. - Seeking gendered perspectives through song'Agostinho, My Husband - Oh Mother!'; 5 African Urban Families in the Late Colonial Era: Agency; Drawing out the black city from projections of the white city; Interface of cement and caniço; Changing employment profiles: Housework and domestic service; Cashew shellers in context; Families, fertility and poverty; Urban family forms; Conclusions: Gendered Perspectives on Work, Households and Authority; The value and visibility of women's work; History and memory: Narrating a new respectability; Epilogue: Mozambique's Cashew Economy, 1975 to 2014. - Sul do Save women and cashew treesThe rituals and business of summertime drinking; Brewing and social capital: Household, gift and informal economies; Cashews in the formal economy: Export and industrial processing; The industrialization of cashew shelling; African farmers and cashew sales; The Cashew economy: Expertise, policy and practice; 2 Tarana: History from the Factory Floor; Layered stories; Tarana: The hoe of the city; Industrial woman comes to town; Mapping Tarana: From djamangwana to tinumerini; Relations of production: Names and address on the factory floor. - Tharaní's era: From satellites to Chamanculo'We counted for something': Papa Tarana remembered; The BNU Era: Roquette and Malalanyana; The bonus / quota system: 'Nothing but trouble'; Contrasting perspectives on price, pay, policy and production; 3 Migration: Pathways from Poverty to Tarana; Gendered rural migration: Natives and agency in late colonial Mozambique; Raced and gendered labour control concepts; The women in men's migration: Magaiça, n'wamacholo and n'wasalela; Rural women without men: Layered ironies of the Limpopo scheme. - The decline of Mozambique's cashew economy: Weather and war
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| ISBN | 9781847011282
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