| 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 |
| 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 |
| Shame, Status, and Limited Sharing |
| • | "Shame" |
| • | The Power of "Aibu" |
| • | Secrecy and Shame |
| • | Recognizing Aibu: Different Ideals and Different Agents |
| • | Some Universal Bases for Aibu |
| • | Aibu without Personal Belief in Having Erred |
| • | Aibu and Significant Others: Arbiters and Sanctioners |
| • | The Distribution of Culture |
| • | Statuses as the Basis for Judgment |
| • | Status Differences and Privacy |
| • | Self-Reinforcing "Fear" |
| • | Aibu as a Social and Psychological Process |
| Cultural Change, Shame, and Cultural Distribution |
| • | Arbiters and Cultural Change |
| Shame, Behavior, and the Distribution of Culture |
| 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 |