| The Way the World is |
| Preface |
 | 1 Ethnographic and Theoretical Introduction |
| • | The Ethnographic Focus |
| • | Incomplete Sharing and Cultural "Explanations" |
| • | "Molecular" Processes and the Enduring Myth of Complete Sharing |
| • | Culture and "Culture" |
| • | "Status": Culture's Action Arm |
| • | Culture and Its Distribution |
| Status: The Action Arm of Culture |
| • | Identifiers |
| • | Salience Understandings |
| • | Specific and General Expectations |
 | General Expectations, Cultural Sharing, and the Effectiveness of Statuses |
| • | General Expectations and the Effects of Unshared Culture |
| • | Cultural Distribution and Social Structure |
| • | The Organization of Culture by Statuses |
| 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 |
| 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 |