M Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 2486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9800-2738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 649 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Using Artificial Neural Networks to Relate External Sensory Features to Internal Decisional Evidence
All theories of perceptual decision-making postulate that external sensory information is transformed into the internal evidence that is used to judge the identity of the stimulus. However, the nature of this external-to-internal transformation is generally unknown. In two experiments, we examined how a particular stimulus feature—orientation—is transformed into internal evidence. Subjects judged whether Gabors were tilted clockwise or counterclo…
Finance and care
Privileged observers and colonial continuities
Anthropological debates about development are often framed by a moral contrast between pure and instrumental knowledge. But the good of anthropology is situationally produced, as we can demonstrate by reflecting on the discipline's institutional conditions. Institutional contexts sustain our professional identities and research practices, including the claimed differences between them. These contexts are in turn produced by political economies of…
Procreation Theories and Their Implications
This chapter gives an account of some aspects of ideologies of procreation and the ritual practices with which they are associated among communities defining themselves as Pogoro in southern Tanzania. Attitudes towards property or the social construction of property relations have implications for the extent to which ideologies of descent are realized in social practice. The most obvious explanation seemed to lie in the radical changes brought ab…
The work of class
This article uses the concept of convenience as an analytical prompt to investigate how ideas about work organize a cash-based social assistance program financed through foreign aid. Productive Social Safety Nets (PSSN) is a nationwide program providing small regular payments to very poor households in Tanzania. Cash transfers as components of social assistance not predicated on working confront assumptions many Tanzanians share about the importa…
Women’s Work is Weeping
This chapter explores constructions of gender and transformation among the groups of people defining themselves as Pogoro, Bantu-speaking agriculturalists who occupy the central highlands section of Ulanga District, southern Tanzania. The vast majority of them are at least nominally affiliated to the Roman Catholic Church which has a presence in the area stretching back almost a century. While both men and women are involved in popular Catholicis…
Scripting development through formalization
Village savings and loan associations (VSLAs) are a form of self-organized savings association which has been successfully promoted by development agencies across the Global South. This article examines the increase in VSLAs in Tanzania through an investigation of the practices through which they are organized. Self-organized savings associations use extreme formalization to enact the social and financial discipline which enables members to count…
Dairying as Development
Smallholder dairying is promoted as a fast track to development for East African farmers through schemes which provide dairy cows to poor households. This article explores issues arising in the care of dairy cows distributed through development projects in South Eastern Tanzania. Animal mortality is high and milk yields far lower than expected. Problems of livestock management in the smallholder dairy sector are frequently explained in terms of h…
Foreign Aid
The book under review is a significant contribution to the study of political economy and culture in contemporary Africa. The book seeks to understand the impact of international development interventions on culture, politics and society in Tanzania. Drawing on scholarly traditions of critical discourse and ethnographical analysis, the book draws heavily on the author’s anthropological research of well over a decade and his work as a development …
Demonstrating development
International development operates as a system of meetings. This essay shows how meetings work within aid regimes to structure responsibilities for implementation, to situate projects within funding streams, and to realize the effects of scale. Where donor aid is increasingly allocated to support national plans which are the responsibility of recipient governments, the monitoring of outcomes requires the instantiation of project forms within and …
After the MDGs
This article explores how a development paradigm changes in Tanzania as the social sector concerns of the Millennium Development Goal era are practically and politically superseded by a commitment to private sector-driven structural transformation. Changes in the content and orientation of development do not occur as a result of evaluating what kinds of interventions are effective. They are the outcome of concerted efforts of paradigm reconstruct…
At the Service of Community Development
This article explores the changing nature of the "volunteer" as an official role within health and development interventions in East Africa. Contemporary development interventions require the engagement of volunteers to act as links between project and community. This role is increasingly professionalized within development architectures with implications for the kinds of people who can engage in volunteering opportunities. Volunteers in developm…
Making Africa middle class
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are moving toward middle-income status at the same time as their middle classes are growing in size and influence. This article explores the role of middle-class economic strategies in bringing about structural changes in the organization of Tanzania's rural economy. Middle-class income strategies oriented toward a mediated relationship with agricultural production depend on the enclosure of productive resourc…
Integrating family planning services into HIV care and treatment clinics in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Many clients of HIV care and treatment services have unmet contraceptive needs. Integrating family planning (FP) services into HIV services is an increasingly utilized strategy for meeting those unmet needs. However, numerous models for services integration are potentially applicable for clients with diverse health needs. This study developed and tested a 'facilitated referral' model for integrating FP into HIV care and treatment in T…
Resilience among asylum seekers living with HIV
Asylum seekers living with HIV in the UK show immense resilience. However, their isolation means they are often unable to deal with their treatment in the asylum system, with negative consequences for their perceived health and wellbeing
Making civil society work
Faith in forms
This paper examines the position and role of religious organisations within a wider range of civil society organisations (CSOs) in two districts in Tanzania. We argue that where development agendas are externally generated and civil society is driven by supply-side factors, religious organisations are not very different from other CSOs. Whether faith adherence and religious values and beliefs lead to different kinds of development outcomes is ope…
Saving, Spending, and Future-Making
Money is a distributed technology for the government of futures. Using ethnographically informed accounts of social practices around saving and collective remittances in poor countries this paper examines how the malleability of money enables it to have the potential for formalisation which allows it to be brought into formal relations of future-making and foreclosure, at the same time as its potential for investments and reallocation enables it …
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Anticipatory development
This article examines the globalization of civil society through the proliferation of non-governmental organizations in developing countries. By focusing on the technologies and methods through which these new forms are globalized their expansion becomes explicable without recourse to theories of neoliberal governmentality. New organizational templates and the role of writing are highlighted in the dissemination of civil society forms in developi…
P2-103 Is the socioeconomic patterning of type II diabetes mediated by sleeping problems? Evidence from the west of Scotland
Introduction Sleep deprivation produces physiological changes similar to those that occur in the development of diabetes. Sleeping patterns may therefore act as a mediator between socioeconomic status and diabetes. Methods Data are from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study. 953 respondents aged approximately 35 at baseline and followed for 20 years with four repeat interviews had valid data and were free of diabetes at baseline. Diabetes at age 5…
Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror
This interdisciplinary collection explores the divergence or convergence of freedom and terror in a range of Byron's works. Challenging the binary opposition of historicism and critical theory, it com
Update from the Editors
Shaving Witchcraft in Ulanga. Kunyolewa and the Catholic Church
Over There
Recentring care
We trace how the category of care comes to be constituted historically and in social theory in ways that privilege the autonomous individual as economic agent and, in the process, renders care a problematic residual to social order and social theory. We investigate how theoretical categories, social relations, institutional orders and discursive practices separate care and economy in ways that constitute those in need (including the impoverished)…
From correlates and characteristics to causes
Participatory Development and the Appropriation of Agency in Southern Tanzania
Ideologies of participatory development promoted by development organizations in Tanzania are at odds with popular aspirations. Popular understandings of development emphasize individual achievement in a context of social differentiation, in what amounts to a recognition of the importance of individual agency in bringing about social transformation. Despite the claims of participatory development ideologies to foster the empowerment of the poor, …
Representing poverty and attacking representations
This article considers the potential contribution of social anthropology to understanding poverty as both social relation and category of international development practice. Despite its association with research in communities and countries now considered poor anthropology has remained disengaged from the current poverty agenda. This disengagement is partly explained by the disciplinary starting point of anthropology which explores the processes …
Partisan mail and voter turnout
The Making and the Unmaking of the Haya Lived World
Globalizing Development in Tanzania
This article explores the social processes through which projects and programmes in international development become standardized in the context of global social policies. The striking similarity in development projects in diverse settings occurs despite the introduction of participatory planning methodologies which are intended to constitute the mechanism through which beneficiaries can become involved in the design and implementations of interv…
"The birth of the "salon
In this article, we explore the social process of modernization through an examination of the transformation in the delivery of antiwitchcraft services that has occurred in southern Tanzania under the pervasive influence of transnational ideoscapes of market liberalization and public-sector reform. We argue that the anthropological association of witchcraft with the modern in Africa overlooks witchcraft's explicitly unmodern associations in popul…
Making civil society work
Trading on inequality
This article explores the economic logic of the domestic drinks market and its place in the subsistence strategies of men and women in a rural district of Ulanga in southern Tanzania, where women's brewing coexists with men's monopolisation of the sap alcohol market. The seasonal availability of sap alcohols, combined with the district's integration into national grain markets, creates a short-lived opportunity for some women to supplement their …
Witchcraft Suppression Practices and Movements
Public practices for the suppression of witchcraft are periodically performed throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Anthropologists have generally sought to interpret such practices rather than explain them. This interpretation rests on assumptions about what such practices might mean for social actors rather than on the actual social processes which make their public performance possible. In the anthropological view, the performance of anti-witchcraft …
The Spirit of Development
At the Service of Community Development
This article explores the changing nature of the "volunteer" as an official role within health and development interventions in East Africa. Contemporary development interventions require the engagement of volunteers to act as links between project and community. This role is increasingly professionalized within development architectures with implications for the kinds of people who can engage in volunteering opportunities. Volunteers in developm…
Medicines and the Embodiment of Substances Among Pogoro Catholics, Southern Tanzania
Les theories anthropologiques de l'incorporation qui partent du principe que le corps humain est tout d'abord un agent de representation ont tendance a negliger la signification des pratiques concretes traitant explicitement du corps. Chez les Pogoro de religion catholique, de telles pratiques corporelles entrainent l'usage de substances qui, classifiees comme remedes, ont le pouvoir de transformer l'etat physique. Ce pouvoir transformatif des re…
Discourses on inequality
This article examines the relation between witchcraft suppression institutions in southern Tanzania and the entrenchment of witchcraft. While practices against witches are acclaimed as a public good by grateful residents, such practices actually contribute to the institutionalization of witchcraft in the area. Witchcraft and practices to expose it and suppress it should be considered as part of a single system. Witchcraft as a system has serious …
Anticipatory development
This article examines the globalization of civil society through the proliferation of non-governmental organizations in developing countries. By focusing on the technologies and methods through which these new forms are globalized their expansion becomes explicable without recourse to theories of neoliberal governmentality. New organizational templates and the role of writing are highlighted in the dissemination of civil society forms in developi…
Doing development and writing culture
This article explores the implications of different knowledge practices in anthropology and international development. Knowledge in development is not a straightforward matter of knowledge about context and devising actions. International development practice is knowledge explicitly constituted as a form of action. Anthropological knowledge claims to separate knowledge from action, first, by making knowledge about the past actions of others - rep…
Mountain Farmers
Mau Mau oathing rituals and political ideology in Kenya
Opening ParagraphThe Mau Mau movement used a campaign of ritualised oath-taking to gain the support and co-operation of the Gikuyu masses. The oaths remain a continuing source of controversy in the literature on Mau Mau, little of which is directly anthropological. This article offers a tentative resolution to that controversy through an anthropological analysis of Mau Mau oathing rituals in the light of contemporary theories on the relation of r…
The work of class
This article uses the concept of convenience as an analytical prompt to investigate how ideas about work organize a cash-based social assistance program financed through foreign aid. Productive Social Safety Nets (PSSN) is a nationwide program providing small regular payments to very poor households in Tanzania. Cash transfers as components of social assistance not predicated on working confront assumptions many Tanzanians share about the importa…
Scripting development through formalization
Village savings and loan associations (VSLAs) are a form of self-organized savings association which has been successfully promoted by development agencies across the Global South. This article examines the increase in VSLAs in Tanzania through an investigation of the practices through which they are organized. Self-organized savings associations use extreme formalization to enact the social and financial discipline which enables members to count…
Making Africa middle class
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are moving toward middle-income status at the same time as their middle classes are growing in size and influence. This article explores the role of middle-class economic strategies in bringing about structural changes in the organization of Tanzania's rural economy. Middle-class income strategies oriented toward a mediated relationship with agricultural production depend on the enclosure of productive resourc…
Saving, Spending, and Future-Making
Money is a distributed technology for the government of futures. Using ethnographically informed accounts of social practices around saving and collective remittances in poor countries this paper examines how the malleability of money enables it to have the potential for formalisation which allows it to be brought into formal relations of future-making and foreclosure, at the same time as its potential for investments and reallocation enables it …
A River of Blessings
Demonstrating development
International development operates as a system of meetings. This essay shows how meetings work within aid regimes to structure responsibilities for implementation, to situate projects within funding streams, and to realize the effects of scale. Where donor aid is increasingly allocated to support national plans which are the responsibility of recipient governments, the monitoring of outcomes requires the instantiation of project forms within and …
Does Glasgow Overspill Cream Off the More Able
Grundlagen des koptischen Satzbaus
Public health implications of the microbial pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis
Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki (B.t.-k) is a microbial pesticide which has been widely used for over 30 years. Its safety for a human population living in sprayed areas has never been tested. Surveillance for human infections caused by B.t.-k among Lane County, Oregon residents was conducted during two seasons of aerial B.t.-k spraying for gypsy moth control. Bacillus isolates from cultures obtained for routine clinical purposes were tested…
Mau Mau oathing rituals and political ideology in Kenya
Opening ParagraphThe Mau Mau movement used a campaign of ritualised oath-taking to gain the support and co-operation of the Gikuyu masses. The oaths remain a continuing source of controversy in the literature on Mau Mau, little of which is directly anthropological. This article offers a tentative resolution to that controversy through an anthropological analysis of Mau Mau oathing rituals in the light of contemporary theories on the relation of r…
Kleine Chrestomathie nichtliterarischer koptischer Texte
Le Catalogue des fragments coptes, I, Fragments bibliques nouvellement identifies
Corpus Papyrorum Raineri. Band XII, Koptische Texte
There Is Only One God
Why Christianity Is the 'Religion of Business
L'A. analyse la perception de l'Eglise et du christianisme ainsi que la facon dont l'Eglise est vecue d'un point de vue social dans une communaute agricole rurale du Sud de la Tanzanie. Les catholiques pogoros separent dans le temps et dans l'espace les pratiques traditionnelles de celles du christianisme. Pour eux, la religion en tant que categorie renvoie aux religions institutionnelles, c'est a dire le christianisme. Les pratiques religieuses …
Why Christianity Is the 'Religion of Business
Maia Green, Why Christianity Is the 'Religion of Business': Perceptions of the Church among Pogoro Catholics in Southern Tanzania, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 25, Fasc. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 25-47
When we Began There Were Witchmen
Medicines and the Embodiment of Substances Among Pogoro Catholics, Southern Tanzania
Les theories anthropologiques de l'incorporation qui partent du principe que le corps humain est tout d'abord un agent de representation ont tendance a negliger la signification des pratiques concretes traitant explicitement du corps. Chez les Pogoro de religion catholique, de telles pratiques corporelles entrainent l'usage de substances qui, classifiees comme remedes, ont le pouvoir de transformer l'etat physique. Ce pouvoir transformatif des re…
The Making and the Unmaking of the Haya Lived World
A River of Blessings
Witchcraft Suppression Practices and Movements
Public practices for the suppression of witchcraft are periodically performed throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Anthropologists have generally sought to interpret such practices rather than explain them. This interpretation rests on assumptions about what such practices might mean for social actors rather than on the actual social processes which make their public performance possible. In the anthropological view, the performance of anti-witchcraft …
Mountain Farmers
Changing the Rules
Trading on inequality
This article explores the economic logic of the domestic drinks market and its place in the subsistence strategies of men and women in a rural district of Ulanga in southern Tanzania, where women's brewing coexists with men's monopolisation of the sap alcohol market. The seasonal availability of sap alcohols, combined with the district's integration into national grain markets, creates a short-lived opportunity for some women to supplement their …
Participatory Development and the Appropriation of Agency in Southern Tanzania
Ideologies of participatory development promoted by development organizations in Tanzania are at odds with popular aspirations. Popular understandings of development emphasize individual achievement in a context of social differentiation, in what amounts to a recognition of the importance of individual agency in bringing about social transformation. Despite the claims of participatory development ideologies to foster the empowerment of the poor, …
Public Reform and the Privatisation of Poverty
Remembering Christ's death or the promise of salvation
The present article explores the apparent universality of Christian symbols with reference to the ritual of communion in part of Catholic Southern Tanzania. Despite the significance of ideologies of salvation in both Christian doctrine and social theory, many popular interpretations of core Christian rituals in Africa and elsewhere emphasise the remembrance of Christ rather than his resurrection. Theories of Christianity as a universal religion m…
Priests, Witches and Power
In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context, she suggests that power relations established during the colonial period continue to hold between both popular Christianity and orthod…
Partisan mail and voter turnout
Priests, Witches, and Power
Globalizing Development in Tanzania
This article explores the social processes through which projects and programmes in international development become standardized in the context of global social policies. The striking similarity in development projects in diverse settings occurs despite the introduction of participatory planning methodologies which are intended to constitute the mechanism through which beneficiaries can become involved in the design and implementations of interv…
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