Lifeworld and System

Of Water Systems and Grain Mill Development in Rural Tanzania

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2595481
AutoresT Waters (0000-0001-5426-4552, autor de correspondencia)
Año1992
Volumen35
Número2
Páginas35
Fecha de publicación1992-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/524869
OpenAlexW2023405090
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas13

I simply take it for granted that other men also exist in this my world, and indeed not only in a bodily manner like and among other objects, but rather as endowed with a consciousness that is essentially the same as mine...[and that] in the natural attitude of everyday life the following is taken for granted without question: (a) the corporeal existence of other men; (b) that these bodies are endowed with consciousness essentially similar to my own; (c) that the things in the outer world included in my environs and that of my fellow-men are the same for us and have fundamentally the same meaning; (d) that I can enter into interrelations and reciprocal actions with my fellow-men; (e) that I can make myself understood to them (which follows from the preceding assumptions); (f) that a stratified social and cultural world is historically pregiven as a frame of reference for me and my fellow-men, indeed in a manner as taken for granted as the ‘natural world’ (g) that therefore the situation in which I find myself at any moment is only to a small extent purely created by me (Schutz and Luckmann 1973, 4-5). Rural development projects involve the application of bureaucratic systems of consciousness to traditional areas where there have never been such normative systems applied before. This means that the values, norms, and ideals of bureaucratic institutions are implicit to how traditionally oriented rural villages are approached by outside development agencies and also how relationships develop between them

Archaeology · Environmental planning · Geography · Lifeworld · Mill · Rural development · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Foucault, Power, and Ethics