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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Obeyesekere, G., 177 , 288

Old Town, 27 ;

description, 28 ;

increased crime in 1980s, 57

Omani:

ancient immigration of, 29 ;

families in Twelve Tribes, 36 ;

identifying traits, 43 , 44 ;

rulers, 29 , 32 , 36 ;

Swahili resentment of, 46 .

See also Arabs

Oliver, R. and G. Mathew, 315 n

Opler, M., 224

Organization of diversity, 272 , 319 n


 

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/