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/


 

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Ideal understandings, 188

Identifying understandings, 8 -9, 14 , 15 -16, 101 , 152 -155;

general sharing of, 175 ;

multiplex relationships and, 298 , 329 n.

See also Expectations; Salience understandings; Status

Illness, 18 ;

some causes of, 322 n, 323 n, 324 n.

See also Medical treatment

Imperial British East Africa Company. See British

Importation of understandings, 238 -239, 298 -300

Indians, 27

Insults, 172 -175.

See also Honor

Intentions. See Nia

Interaction:

limited sharing, 143 ;

predictability and, 143 -144;

roles as basis for, 146 -147.

See also Predictability; Role; Tokens; Unshared culture


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Islam, 316n, 320n;

attendance at mosques, 57 -58;

Ibathi canon of, 43 ;

religious courts, 55 -56, 65 ;

religious schools, 56 ;

Shafi canon of, 29 ;

Swahili affiliation, 8 -9, 29 .

See also Parents and children, parental blessing; Separation of women and men


 

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/