| 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 |
| 10 A Wife is Clothes Family Politics, Cultural Organization, and Social Structure |
 | 11 The Dynamics of Swahili Culture A Status-Centered View |
| • | Invoking "Shared Beliefs and Values"—and Why Not |
| • | How Cultural Elements Affect Those Who Do Not Share Them: Statuses, Cultural Distribution, and Prediction |
| • | Statuses: Bringing Culture to Bear on Everyday Concerns for Sharers and Nonsharers Alike |
| • | Evaluation as the Foundation of Social Life, Status as the Foundation of Evaluation |
| • | How Unshared Evaluative Understandings Serve to Affect Behavior |
| • | Statuses as a Source of Morality When Understandings Differ |
| • | Broader Consequences of Social Relationships |
| • | "Delivery Systems" and Cultural Guidance for Life's Problems |
| • | Limited Sharing within Statuses and the Sources of Statuses' Effectiveness: The Issues |
| • | Conformity and Status Effectiveness: Universal Sharing and the Role of Tokens |
| • | When Tokens are Not Guides But Have Manifest Results |
| • | Divergent Understandings and Double Contingency |
| • | The Necessity for "Common Standards" and the Question of Sharing |
| • | Universal Sharing and the Importance of Relationships: "I Know You!" |
| • | Relationship Terms and Cultural Models |
| • | The Importance of Positive Assessments: A Universal Lesson and Ubiquitous Source of Cultural Conformity |
| • | Cultural Conformity: Bases for Shame and Guilt |
| • | Conformity to Communitywide and Status-Specific Understandings |
| • | Statuses and Cultural Conformity |
| • | Judging and Sharing: Conformity Independent of Consensus |
| • | Limiting Cultural Diversity with Cultural Models |
| • | Multiplex Relationships, Conformity, and General Expectations |
| • | General Expectations, Cultural Sharing, and the Scope of Multiplex Relationships |
| Sharing Identifying Understandings |
| • | Cultural Organization and General Expectations |
| "Patterns" or Common Element Organizations |
| • | Social Structure as an Independent Influence on Behavior |
| • | The Social Structural Importance of Multiplex Relationships and Their General Expectations |
| • | Social Structure as an Independent Influence on Behavior |
| • | Culture and "Cultural Products" |
| • | Wives' Power De Nihilo: Social Structure's Effects Independent from Culture |
| • | Social Structure's Effect: Blocking and Channeling |
| • | Hakuna Refu Lisilo Ncha : Nothing is So Long that it has No End |
| Notes |
| References |
| Index |