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Encounters Ser.: Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen by Sabrina Billings (2013, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMultilingual Matters
ISBN-10178309074X
ISBN-139781783090747
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038412762
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLanguage, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen
Publication Year2013
SubjectBeauty & Grooming, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric, Anthropology / General, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorSabrina Billings
Subject AreaSocial Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Health & Fitness
SeriesEncounters Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight10.9 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2013-023705
ReviewsSophisticated social theory and the tools of linguistic anthropology join together in this book, a fascinating study of beauty contests in Tanzania that reveals their complex and anxious importance to Tanzanian society. This exploration of the role that language plays in negotiations over the meaning of cosmopolitanism and the morality of gender is linguistic ethnography at its best. - Niko Besnier, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sabrina Billings' book speaks beautifully to young Tanzanian women's aspirations for cosmopolitan ascent through the global beauty pageant pyramid, contrasting their specifically gendered lot in national sociolinguistic hierarchies. Beauty pageants thus provide the lens through which we can clearly see the enabling and constraining effects of local varieties of English, of Swahili, and of Tanzania's numerous ethnic languages. - Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago, USA, It is an excellent book, a coherent and well structured ethnography punctuated with many outstanding arguments, with reach across and between several disciplines. In a very simple way, though, it is the 'accessibility' and 'clarity' of this book that is its greatest strength, and the expert balance between the professional, or the academic, and the personal. Overall, this book is an excellent micro-analysis of language in and around Tanzanian beauty pageants, revealing the links and conflicts between discourses of structural inequality, education, urbanisation and urbanity, gender relations, and the divides between cosmopolitan centres and the global periphery. It is a pleasure to read, both for its content and for the quality of the writing, and should be read and enjoyed by many., Sophisticated social theory and the tools of linguistic anthropology join together in this book, a fascinating study of beauty contests in Tanzania that reveals their complex and anxious importance to Tanzanian society. This exploration of the role that language plays in negotiations over the meaning of cosmopolitanism and the morality of gender is linguistic ethnography at its best.
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number2
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal427.9678
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. Language Ideologies, Linguistic Registers, and the Sociolinguistic Landscape of Swahili and English in Tanzania 2. 'From the Geneva of Africa': Beauty Pageants, National Cultural and Tanzanian Femininity 3. 'I am Very Good at Explaining Myself, Especially in English': The Packaging of Privilege in the Making of Tanzanian Beauty Queens 4. 'Education is the Key of Life': Contestants as Schoolgirls in Pursuit of an Escape 5. 'Which is your favorite colour?': Race and Ethnicity in a Color-Blind Tanzania 6. Kutafuta Maisha: 'Looking for a Life' from the Edge of the Globe
SynopsisThis book uses a micro-analysis of language in and around Tanzanian beauty pageants to address structural inequalities, gender relations, globalization, as well as educational and language policy. The book paints a picture of how people on the global periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world., Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies - linguistic and otherwise - for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.
LC Classification NumberPE3432.T36
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