‘Two feet’ as citizenship strategy: an anthropological perspective on instrumental approaches to citizenship among people of Indian origin in Tanzania

Pallesen, Cecil Marie Schou

doi:10.1080/19480881.2017.1374679

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“…This role as caretaker of culture, traditions and identity is typical for women in the East African Indian families. See Fibiger, 1998and Pallesen, 2017.…”

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“…The Tanzanian Indians want to be part of the nation, but only to a certain degree. 2 The Indians who stayed in Tanzania have felt it necessary to keep what they call 'a foot in the door', a practice of securing different citizenships within each family, so that they will be able to leave if it becomes too precarious (Pallesen, 2017). Both past events and the visions of the future create a certain ambiguity among the dramatically shrinking Indian minority I work with.…”

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The permeable and the pervasive: Approaching an understanding of atmospheres of home among Tanzanian Indians

Schou Pallesen

2023

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Working with atmospheres as part of ethnographic fieldwork demands sensitivity and is to some extent a subtle endeavour (Schroer, Schmitt, 2018). It requires attention to detail and a willingness to register how emotions and sensations take place in one's own body and how the connectedness of people, feelings, things, places, sounds and light unfold. I am continuously exploring and learning. My data are a mix of things that my interlocutors told me, ambiences that I felt in specific situations, feelings I had, body language and facial expressions that I noted, words used, laughter, tears, conversations, smells, sounds. Sometimes I was "in it" myself while helping Bhavisha in the kitchen; sometimes I was observing and sensing behind the camera or in-betweenThe permeable and the pervasive: Approaching an understanding of atmospheres ...

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“…This role as caretaker of culture, traditions and identity is typical for women in the East African Indian families. See Fibiger, 1998and Pallesen, 2017.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ambiances 9 | 2023mentioning

confidence: 99%