Brad W Weiss

Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (Studies of Religion in Africa) (No. 26)

The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal product...

The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice (Body, Commodity, Text)

At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and the producer of everyday practices. Drawing on his experience living with the Haya, Brad Weiss explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their ...

Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania (Tracking Globalization)

For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House and Boyz II Men, these workplaces are also nodes in an explosion of popular culture that appropriates images drawn from the global circulation of hip ho...

Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests (Social History of Africa Series)

Weiss explores the dynamic relation of specific local, regional, and global understandings of value as manifested in the coffee of rural Haya communities. His investigation offers critical insight into the significance of colonial and postcolonial encounters in this region of Africa.

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Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork

In addition to being one of the United States' largest pork producers, North Carolina is home to a developing niche market of pasture-raised pork. In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, a...