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 |