'Her name is Kamundage': rethinking women and property among the Haya of Tanzania
Manji, A.
Africa London 70(3): 482-500
2000
DOI: 10.2307/1161070Document Number: 262442
This article introduces three models by which it is possible to interpret women's relations to property: the structuralist model, the interactionist model and the entitlement model. By reference to fieldwork carried out in the Kagera region of Tanzania, it discusses the potential of each model to deepen our understanding of women's relations to land and argues that none of the models taken alone is adequate fully to explain the range of ways in which women interact with property in Kagera nor their experiences of struggling over land. The article therefore attempts to construct a theoretical framework for rethinking women and property.