The Way the World is |
Preface |
![]() | 1 Ethnographic and Theoretical Introduction |
![]() | 2 Akher Zamani Mombasa Swahili History and Contemporary Society |
• | The Swahili in Contemporary Mombasa |
• | Contemporary Old Town and Mombasa |
![]() | Old Mombasa |
• | Beginning: 1000–1500 |
• | The Coming of the Two-Section Community: 1500–1836 |
• | The Busaidi and the British: 1837–1964 |
![]() | 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 |