| 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 |
 | 9 Leaning on the Cow's Fat Hump Medical Choices, Unshared Culture, and General Expectations |
| • | Cultural Organization |
| • | Limited Sharing of Vital Understandings and Organization |
| • | A Cultural Pattern: An Intrinsic Organization |
| Expert Understanding of Body Functioning and Illness |
| Expert Understandings of the Causes of Illness |
| • | Morality, Illness, and Organization |
| • | Balance as a Desideratum in Social Relations |
| • | Balance in Understandings about the Body and about Social Relations |
| • | Patterns, Nonsharing, and Cultural Organization |
| • | Laymen's Understandings about Illness and Body Functioning |
| • | Cultural Organization and Guidance: Choice without Understandings |
| • | Illness and Treatment |
| • | Medical Care and Advisers |
| • | Advice in Multiplex Relations with General Expectations |
| • | Advisers' Understandings and Experience |
| • | Social Relationships and Plans of Action: Cultural But Extrinsically Organized |
| General Expectations and Cultural Organizations: It isn't What You Know |
| • | Illness, Nonsharing and "Patterns" |
| • | Conclusion and Summary |
| 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 |