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 |
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 |