| The Way the World is |
| Preface |
 | 1 Ethnographic and Theoretical Introduction |
| 2 Akher Zamani Mombasa Swahili History and Contemporary Society |
| 3 The Brotherhood of Coconuts Unity, Conflict, and Narrowing Loyalties |
| 4 He Who Eats with You Kinship, Family, and Neighborhood |
 | 5 Understanding is Like Hair Limited Cultural Sharing and the Inappropriateness of "All by All" and "Some by Some" Models for Swahili Culture |
| • | Introduction |
| • | "Status" |
| • | Measuring Cultural Sharing |
| • | The Limits in the Amount of Family Culture Shared by Family Members and Community Members from Different Families |
| • | Are the Swahili a "Homogeneous Society"? |
| • | Extent of Sharing within the Family Versus Extent of Total Group Sharing |
| • | Less Sharing Among Members of the Same Named Statuses than Among Fellow Family Members with Different Family Statuses |
| • | "Family Member" as a Status |
| • | Status Membership and the Sharing of Status Culture |
| • | Relationships: Do Participants Share Their Culture More? |
| • | Neither "All by All" Nor, without Modification, "Some by Some" |
| • | Dealing with the Fact of Diversity |
| 6 Close One of Your Eyes Concealing Differences Between the Generations and the Uses of "Tokens" |
| 7 Liking Only Those in Your Eye Relationship Terms, Statuses, and Cultural Models |
| 8 Tongues are Spears Shame and Differentiated Conformity |
| 9 Leaning on the Cow's Fat Hump Medical Choices, Unshared Culture, and General Expectations |
| 10 A Wife is Clothes Family Politics, Cultural Organization, and Social Structure |
| 11 The Dynamics of Swahili Culture A Status-Centered View |
| Notes |
| References |
| Index |