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 |
• | Importation in Swahili Medical Treatment: It isn't What You Know |
• | 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 |