Reciprocity and the Moral Economy of Exchange in African ‘Tealess’ Tea Parties in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, c. 1945–1950s

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY South African Historical Journal Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/02582473.2022.2036802
Perseverence Madhuku, Joseph Mujere, Barbara Mahamba
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ABSTRACT In recent decades, historians’ understanding of colonialism has been significantly enriched, going beyond the central concepts of resistance and negotiation. Several works have been produced on various aspects of African lives in colonial cities. Yet African organisational life and networks of solidarity in such ‘restrictive’ urban spaces have been largely overlooked. In this article, we examine African ‘informal’ leisure parties known as tea parties (matiyipati) and their role as economic circuits for the African underclass in Harari Township in Salisbury. Although Africans in urban areas were offered few opportunities in the colonial economy, they were capable of exploiting the crevices in the colonial system to create an alternative, underground economy that enabled them to survive in the city. Drawing on archival sources and oral interviews, this article argues that not only were tea parties arenas for alcohol consumption and cultural resistance but they were also essential platforms for chatting new livelihoods. The moral discourse of both the organisers and patrons was founded on the premise of the right to subsistence livelihoods. As a result, the exchange at these parties remained embedded in wide socio-cultural systems of which reciprocity formed an integral part.
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1945年至1950年代在南罗得西亚索尔兹伯里举行的非洲“无茶”茶会中的互惠和道德交换经济
摘要近几十年来,历史学家对殖民主义的理解大大丰富,超越了抵抗和谈判的核心概念。已经制作了几部关于殖民地城市中非洲人生活各个方面的作品。然而,在这种“限制性”的城市空间中,非洲的组织生活和团结网络在很大程度上被忽视了。在这篇文章中,我们研究了被称为茶话会(matiyipati)的非洲“非正式”休闲派对,以及它们作为索尔兹伯里哈拉里镇非洲下层阶级经济回路的作用。尽管城市地区的非洲人在殖民经济中几乎没有机会,但他们有能力利用殖民体系中的漏洞,创造一种替代的地下经济,使他们能够在城市中生存。根据档案来源和口头采访,这篇文章认为,茶话会不仅是饮酒和文化抵抗的场所,也是聊天新生计的重要平台。组织者和赞助人的道德话语都建立在生计生存权的前提下。因此,这些政党的交流仍然植根于广泛的社会文化体系中,互惠是其中不可或缺的一部分。
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期刊介绍: Over the past 40 years, the South African Historical Journal has become renowned and internationally regarded as a premier history journal published in South Africa, promoting significant historical scholarship on the country as well as the southern African region. The journal, which is linked to the Southern African Historical Society, has provided a high-quality medium for original thinking about South African history and has thus shaped - and continues to contribute towards defining - the historiography of the region.
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