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 |
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 |