TY - JOUR

T1 - A Cultural Analysis of the Economy of Affection and the Uncaptured Peasantry in Tanzania

AU - Waters, Tony

PY - 1992/3

Y1 - 1992/3

N2 - Is the ‘economy of affection’, as suggested by Goran Hyden, the key factor determining social relations in East Africa and elsewhere? According to this thesis, both villagers and city-dwellers are tied together in webs of kinship and tribal obligation that mitigate against the accumulation of wealth or capital necessary for the formation of either industrial modes of production or class-based societies. Hyden claims that the high values placed on personal relationships are dependent upon ‘a peasant mode of production’, and that, in the case of Tanzania, their persistence and perseverance has been the most significant factor inhibiting economic development. In short, the ‘smallness’ of the peasantry is a source of power.

AB - Is the ‘economy of affection’, as suggested by Goran Hyden, the key factor determining social relations in East Africa and elsewhere? According to this thesis, both villagers and city-dwellers are tied together in webs of kinship and tribal obligation that mitigate against the accumulation of wealth or capital necessary for the formation of either industrial modes of production or class-based societies. Hyden claims that the high values placed on personal relationships are dependent upon ‘a peasant mode of production’, and that, in the case of Tanzania, their persistence and perseverance has been the most significant factor inhibiting economic development. In short, the ‘smallness’ of the peasantry is a source of power.

KW - Sociology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0026447864&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/S0022278X00007771

DO - 10.1017/S0022278X00007771

M3 - Scientific review articles

AN - SCOPUS:0026447864

VL - 30

SP - 163

EP - 175

JO - The Journal of Modern African Studies

JF - The Journal of Modern African Studies

SN - 0022-278X

IS - 1

ER -