Preferred Citation: Swartz, Marc J. The Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations among the Mombasa Swahili. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9v19p2m5/


 

B

Balance pattern, 214 -216, 220 -221, 224 , 302 -303, 324 n;

in body functioning, 223 ;

in social relations, 221 -223

Baraza, 317 n

Bena, 180 , 317 , 324 n, 327 n

Benedict, R., 302

Berg, F., 29 , 31 , 34 , 35 , 36 -37, 54 , 315 n

Berg, F. and B. Walters, 30 , 36

Berg, Sheila, xiii

Berlin, B. and P. Kay, 102

Body functioning and bodily elements, 213 -217.

See also Balance pattern; Medical treatment; Patterns of culture

Bott, E., 243 , 269

Bride wealth, 93

British:

alienation of Swahili land, 39 -40;

different classification for Swahili and Arabs, 45 -46;

Imperial British East Africa Company, 37 -38;

influence on Omani sultan, 37 ;

slaves and, 37 -39;

views of Swahili and Arabs, 38.

See also Mazrui

Busaidi rulers, 35 -37, 42 -43

Bwaan Dumila, xii

Bwiti cult, 138 -139


 

Preferred Citation: Swartz, Marc J. The Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations among the Mombasa Swahili. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9v19p2m5/