Brad Wei
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brad Wei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brad |
| FAMILY NAME | Wei |
| SIGNATURE | WEI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 300 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: Materializing Value in Culinary Practice
Certain culinary practices are often interpreted as evidence of 'economizing' (a frugal use of available resources) or of 'excess' (a celebratory expenditure of resources for symbolic purposes). This article uses these categories as a way to interrogate analytical assumptions about materialism more generally. Drawing on ethnographic research from both rural Tanzania, and the contemporary suburban United States, it argues that various qualities of…
Remaking Meat: A Place for Livestock
What is local food? What makes food—the cultivation, production, distribution, and consumption of agricultural products in particular—so resolutely bound up with place? Place is never simply about social membership—it can also be endowed with a sense of historical depth, and a set of particular possibilities. Active engagement with place is always full of potential that transcends the mere condition of being located in a position. In this essay I…
Opening Access: Publics, Publication, and a Path to Inclusion
Excerpt from publication: "For many years, members of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA),as well as our executive board and editors, have been interested in pursuing anopen-access option for our flagship publication,Cultural Anthropology
Configuring the authentic value of real food: Farm-to-fork, snout-to-tail, and local food movements
The partibility of pigs and the circulation of their parts-from snout to tail, as the popular culinary phrase puts it-are routinely celebrated in communities committed to eating "local." In this article, I explore how different kinds of totalities are configured in the practices of such "locavore" actors with respect to pigs and pork. Approaches as varied as Sausseurean structuralism, functionalist sociology, and actor network theory characterize…
Uncertain Tastes: Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu Northern Kenya by Jon Holtzman
Making Pigs Local: Discerning the Sensory Character of Place
This article offers an attempt to characterize the relationship between "taste" and "place" as cultivated and embodied in the production, circulation, and consumption of pasture-raised pork. I focus on the Piedmont region of North Carolina, and offer ethnographic evidence drawn from working with farmers, chefs and restaurant workers, as well as consumers at farmers' markets to give substance to these discussions. The argument problematizes the ca…
A Tribute to Ingrid Lawrie
Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo
Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo. Susan Ossman .Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. vii. 204 pp., photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
A Religion of the Rupee: Materialist Encounters in North-West Tanzania
This article examines the moral ambiguities of materialism that emerged with the coffee trade in north-west Tanganyika. The White Fathers, who played a prominent (often unintended) role in the growth of coffee markets, and the Haya villagers who became coffee farmers and traders alike understood the threat that commercial activity posed to non-commercial forms of value. The Fathers' attitude to the trade was often at odds with what they perceived…
Thug Realism: Inhabiting Fantasy in Urban Tanzania
Ruksa (President Permit), as Mwinyi came to be known, adopted the reforms of structural adjustment required by the IMF to finance Tanzania's transformation into a post-"African Socialist" society.In an astonishing bit of neoliberal synergy, postsocialist Tanzania has become the leading site within Africa for capital infusion from postaparthcid South African investors (R. Schroeder, personal communication).Predictably, the "boom" of investment in …
Mal-Adjustments: Ritual and Reproduction in Neo-Liberal Africa
The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization and Everyday Practice
Brad Weiss, The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: consumption, commoditization and everyday practice. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1996, 258 pp., ISBN 0 8223 1722 2. - Volume 71 Issue 3
A Politics of Presence: Contacts between Missionaries and Waluguru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
Good-for-nothing haya names: Powers of recollection in northwest Tanzania
This article explores names and naming practices in Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania. Certain Haya names evoke past experiences and circumstances that surround the birth of a child, as well as the social reputation of the child's parents, I argue that this act of recollection embedded in such names can best be understood as an effort to displace past reputations, and overcome the disparaging views of one's consociates. From this perspective…
Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. PAUL ANTZE and MICHAEL LAMBEK, eds. New York: Routledge, 1996. xxxvii + 266 pp., notes, references, contributors, indexes
Things as They are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology
Things as They Are: New Directions In Phenomenological Anthropology. MICHAEL JACKSON, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. x + 287 pp., notes, references, contributors
Objects and Bodies: Some Phenomenological Implications of Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Grounded in collective interactions that are often quite contentious, knowledge is formulated in the world (objectified), and tangibly experienced (embodied) by the agents engaged in these interactions. As a means of acting on the world in order to transform it, knowledge is implicitly powerful. Yet, the consequences of that power are only realized through the context in which they are carried out. Thus, the ambiguous character of such knowledge …
Forgetting Your Dead: Alienable and Inalienable Objects in Northwest Tanzania
Recent studies of the cultural construction of memory have drawn attention to the ways in which processes of remembering depend on the success of forgetting. Forgetting, by these accounts, is not merely an ineffective attempt to retain information, or an unintended consequence of the production of new forms of knowledge. Rather, forgetting can in some instances be seen as an intentional and purposive attempt to create absences that can be crucial…
The Making and the Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization and Everyday Practice
Northwestern Tanzania on a Single Shilling: Sociality, Embodiment, Valuation
The process of fermenting banana juice and ground millet into banana beer is an elaborate craft, practiced and appreciated by Haya men. As is the case in many African communities where the plenitude and desirability of beer is intimately connected with, if not indistinguishable from, the establishment and vigor of sociality itself, Haya brewers and drinkers are scrupulously attentive to the details of this often lengthy procedure (Carlson 1989; K…
Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power
Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power. MARY W. HELMS. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. xii + 303 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science
Introduction Part I. Beginnings: l. A definition of religion, and its uses Part II. Mainly Critical: 2. Neo-Tylorianism: sound sense or sinister prejudice? 3. Levy-Bruhl, Durkheim and the scientific revolution 4. Back to Frazer? 5. Professor Winch on safari 6. Judaeo-Christian spectacles: boon or bane to the study of African religions? Part III. Mainly Constructive: 7. African traditional thought and Western science 8. Paradox and explanation: a …
When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya. Jeffrey A. Fadiman
African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing . PHILIP M. Peek
Curing Their IIIs: Colonial Power and African Illness. Megan Vaughan
Thug Realism: Inhabiting Fantasy in Urban Tanzania
Ruksa (President Permit), as Mwinyi came to be known, adopted the reforms of structural adjustment required by the IMF to finance Tanzania's transformation into a post-"African Socialist" society.In an astonishing bit of neoliberal synergy, postsocialist Tanzania has become the leading site within Africa for capital infusion from postaparthcid South African investors (R. Schroeder, personal communication).Predictably, the "boom" of investment in …
Making Pigs Local: Discerning the Sensory Character of Place
This article offers an attempt to characterize the relationship between "taste" and "place" as cultivated and embodied in the production, circulation, and consumption of pasture-raised pork. I focus on the Piedmont region of North Carolina, and offer ethnographic evidence drawn from working with farmers, chefs and restaurant workers, as well as consumers at farmers' markets to give substance to these discussions. The argument problematizes the ca…
The Making and the Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization and Everyday Practice
Configuring the authentic value of real food: Farm-to-fork, snout-to-tail, and local food movements
The partibility of pigs and the circulation of their parts-from snout to tail, as the popular culinary phrase puts it-are routinely celebrated in communities committed to eating "local." In this article, I explore how different kinds of totalities are configured in the practices of such "locavore" actors with respect to pigs and pork. Approaches as varied as Sausseurean structuralism, functionalist sociology, and actor network theory characterize…
Buying her grave: Money, movement and Aids in north-west Tanzania
Buying her grave' is a highly condensed statement about the position of women, and of gender relations more generally, at the crux of dynamic processes of socio-cultural continuity among the Haya of north-west Tanzania. This article suggests that the grave, an essential site of focalisation, is undone by purchase, the quintessential act of disruption, dislocation and uncontrolled mobility. Men believe that women are 'buying their graves' (contrac…
Forgetting Your Dead: Alienable and Inalienable Objects in Northwest Tanzania
Recent studies of the cultural construction of memory have drawn attention to the ways in which processes of remembering depend on the success of forgetting. Forgetting, by these accounts, is not merely an ineffective attempt to retain information, or an unintended consequence of the production of new forms of knowledge. Rather, forgetting can in some instances be seen as an intentional and purposive attempt to create absences that can be crucial…
A Politics of Presence: Contacts between Missionaries and Waluguru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
Northwestern Tanzania on a Single Shilling: Sociality, Embodiment, Valuation
The process of fermenting banana juice and ground millet into banana beer is an elaborate craft, practiced and appreciated by Haya men. As is the case in many African communities where the plenitude and desirability of beer is intimately connected with, if not indistinguishable from, the establishment and vigor of sociality itself, Haya brewers and drinkers are scrupulously attentive to the details of this often lengthy procedure (Carlson 1989; K…
Plastic teeth extraction: The iconography of Haya gastro-sexual affliction
This article examines the contemporary appearance of plastic teeth, a disease of infants and children, among the Haya of northwest Tanzania. It relates the symptoms to the cultural symbolism of bodily processes and conditions, and further grounds those processes in broad transformations in the Haya political economy. This assessment of a particular affliction specifically attempts to assess the meaningful and symbolic nature of commodities and co…
The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization and Everyday Practice
Brad Weiss, The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: consumption, commoditization and everyday practice. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1996, 258 pp., ISBN 0 8223 1722 2. - Volume 71 Issue 3
A Religion of the Rupee: Materialist Encounters in North-West Tanzania
This article examines the moral ambiguities of materialism that emerged with the coffee trade in north-west Tanganyika. The White Fathers, who played a prominent (often unintended) role in the growth of coffee markets, and the Haya villagers who became coffee farmers and traders alike understood the threat that commercial activity posed to non-commercial forms of value. The Fathers' attitude to the trade was often at odds with what they perceived…
Opening Access: Publics, Publication, and a Path to Inclusion
Excerpt from publication: "For many years, members of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA),as well as our executive board and editors, have been interested in pursuing anopen-access option for our flagship publication,Cultural Anthropology
Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo
Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo. Susan Ossman .Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. vii. 204 pp., photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
Cuisine of economy, cuisine of excess: Materializing Value in Culinary Practice
Certain culinary practices are often interpreted as evidence of 'economizing' (a frugal use of available resources) or of 'excess' (a celebratory expenditure of resources for symbolic purposes). This article uses these categories as a way to interrogate analytical assumptions about materialism more generally. Drawing on ethnographic research from both rural Tanzania, and the contemporary suburban United States, it argues that various qualities of…
Good-for-nothing haya names: Powers of recollection in northwest Tanzania
This article explores names and naming practices in Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania. Certain Haya names evoke past experiences and circumstances that surround the birth of a child, as well as the social reputation of the child's parents, I argue that this act of recollection embedded in such names can best be understood as an effort to displace past reputations, and overcome the disparaging views of one's consociates. From this perspective…
Things as They are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology
Things as They Are: New Directions In Phenomenological Anthropology. MICHAEL JACKSON, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. x + 287 pp., notes, references, contributors
Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power
Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power. MARY W. HELMS. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. xii + 303 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index
La nourriture qui ne rassasie jamais: Une Histoire Sociale Du Café Haya (Note De Recherche)
" La nourriture qui ne rassasie jamais " : une histoire sociale du café haya (note de recherche). Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Frontières culturelles et marchandises) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Plastic teeth extraction: The iconography of Haya gastro-sexual affliction
This article examines the contemporary appearance of plastic teeth, a disease of infants and children, among the Haya of northwest Tanzania. It relates the symptoms to the cultural symbolism of bodily processes and conditions, and further grounds those processes in broad transformations in the Haya political economy. This assessment of a particular affliction specifically attempts to assess the meaningful and symbolic nature of commodities and co…
Buying her grave: Money, movement and Aids in north-west Tanzania
Buying her grave' is a highly condensed statement about the position of women, and of gender relations more generally, at the crux of dynamic processes of socio-cultural continuity among the Haya of north-west Tanzania. This article suggests that the grave, an essential site of focalisation, is undone by purchase, the quintessential act of disruption, dislocation and uncontrolled mobility. Men believe that women are 'buying their graves' (contrac…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Sacred Void: Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya. David Parkin
African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing . PHILIP M. Peek
Curing Their IIIs: Colonial Power and African Illness. Megan Vaughan
La nourriture qui ne rassasie jamais: Une Histoire Sociale Du Café Haya (Note De Recherche)
" La nourriture qui ne rassasie jamais " : une histoire sociale du café haya (note de recherche). Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Frontières culturelles et marchandises) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
When We Began, There Were Witchmen: An Oral History from Mount Kenya. Jeffrey A. Fadiman
Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science
Introduction Part I. Beginnings: l. A definition of religion, and its uses Part II. Mainly Critical: 2. Neo-Tylorianism: sound sense or sinister prejudice? 3. Levy-Bruhl, Durkheim and the scientific revolution 4. Back to Frazer? 5. Professor Winch on safari 6. Judaeo-Christian spectacles: boon or bane to the study of African religions? Part III. Mainly Constructive: 7. African traditional thought and Western science 8. Paradox and explanation: a …
Objects and Bodies: Some Phenomenological Implications of Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Grounded in collective interactions that are often quite contentious, knowledge is formulated in the world (objectified), and tangibly experienced (embodied) by the agents engaged in these interactions. As a means of acting on the world in order to transform it, knowledge is implicitly powerful. Yet, the consequences of that power are only realized through the context in which they are carried out. Thus, the ambiguous character of such knowledge …
Forgetting Your Dead: Alienable and Inalienable Objects in Northwest Tanzania
Recent studies of the cultural construction of memory have drawn attention to the ways in which processes of remembering depend on the success of forgetting. Forgetting, by these accounts, is not merely an ineffective attempt to retain information, or an unintended consequence of the production of new forms of knowledge. Rather, forgetting can in some instances be seen as an intentional and purposive attempt to create absences that can be crucial…
The Making and the Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization and Everyday Practice
Northwestern Tanzania on a Single Shilling: Sociality, Embodiment, Valuation
The process of fermenting banana juice and ground millet into banana beer is an elaborate craft, practiced and appreciated by Haya men. As is the case in many African communities where the plenitude and desirability of beer is intimately connected with, if not indistinguishable from, the establishment and vigor of sociality itself, Haya brewers and drinkers are scrupulously attentive to the details of this often lengthy procedure (Carlson 1989; K…
Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power
Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade, and Power. MARY W. HELMS. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. xii + 303 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index
Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. PAUL ANTZE and MICHAEL LAMBEK, eds. New York: Routledge, 1996. xxxvii + 266 pp., notes, references, contributors, indexes
Things as They are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology
Things as They Are: New Directions In Phenomenological Anthropology. MICHAEL JACKSON, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. x + 287 pp., notes, references, contributors
Good-for-nothing haya names: Powers of recollection in northwest Tanzania
This article explores names and naming practices in Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania. Certain Haya names evoke past experiences and circumstances that surround the birth of a child, as well as the social reputation of the child's parents, I argue that this act of recollection embedded in such names can best be understood as an effort to displace past reputations, and overcome the disparaging views of one's consociates. From this perspective…
A Politics of Presence: Contacts between Missionaries and Waluguru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
Mal-Adjustments: Ritual and Reproduction in Neo-Liberal Africa
The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization and Everyday Practice
Brad Weiss, The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: consumption, commoditization and everyday practice. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1996, 258 pp., ISBN 0 8223 1722 2. - Volume 71 Issue 3
A Religion of the Rupee: Materialist Encounters in North-West Tanzania
This article examines the moral ambiguities of materialism that emerged with the coffee trade in north-west Tanganyika. The White Fathers, who played a prominent (often unintended) role in the growth of coffee markets, and the Haya villagers who became coffee farmers and traders alike understood the threat that commercial activity posed to non-commercial forms of value. The Fathers' attitude to the trade was often at odds with what they perceived…
Thug Realism: Inhabiting Fantasy in Urban Tanzania
Ruksa (President Permit), as Mwinyi came to be known, adopted the reforms of structural adjustment required by the IMF to finance Tanzania's transformation into a post-"African Socialist" society.In an astonishing bit of neoliberal synergy, postsocialist Tanzania has become the leading site within Africa for capital infusion from postaparthcid South African investors (R. Schroeder, personal communication).Predictably, the "boom" of investment in …
Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo
Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo. Susan Ossman .Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. vii. 204 pp., photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
A Tribute to Ingrid Lawrie
Uncertain Tastes: Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu Northern Kenya by Jon Holtzman
Making Pigs Local: Discerning the Sensory Character of Place
This article offers an attempt to characterize the relationship between "taste" and "place" as cultivated and embodied in the production, circulation, and consumption of pasture-raised pork. I focus on the Piedmont region of North Carolina, and offer ethnographic evidence drawn from working with farmers, chefs and restaurant workers, as well as consumers at farmers' markets to give substance to these discussions. The argument problematizes the ca…
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