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Résumé :
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In this theoretically rich and ethnographically detailed book, Anita Jacobson-Widding provides a classical anthropological study of identity formation for Manyika males and females in eastern Zimbabwe. Drawing on various theoretical streams of psychological, cognitive, and symbolic anthropology, and on 21 months of fieldwork in villages in Mutasa and Nyanga districts and in the city of Mutare through three trips between 1984 and 1996, Jacobson-Widding explains the ethical construction of the self, the conflicting gender and kinship ideologies of equality and hierarchy, and intrafamily dynamics of the Manyika, who are conventionally classified as one of the subgroups of the Shona.
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