Choice And Constraint In A Swahili Community

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Choice And Constraint In A Swahili Community

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Author : Ann Patricia Caplan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-08-16

Choice And Constraint In A Swahili Community written by Ann Patricia Caplan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-16 with Social Science categories.

Originally published in 1975, this book examines property and power relations in a Swahili village on Mafia Island off Tanzania. It focuses on the cognatic descent groups which are important in many areas of village life such as land-holding, marriage, residence, Islamic activities and spirit possession cults. Some anthropologists have contended that groups with multiple membership cannot be viable social units, but this book shows that such a system can actually work. In showing how the cognatic descent groups actually operate, both an ideology of descent group membership and also numerical material about patterns of choice are presented. This involves the construction of both mechanical and statistical models, as well as a decision model to discuss the constraints governing choices.

Choice And Constraint In A Swahili Community

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Author : Ann Patricia Caplan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975-01-01

Choice And Constraint In A Swahili Community written by Ann Patricia Caplan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-01-01 with Ethnology categories.

Contemporary Issues In Swahili Ethnography

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Author : Iain Walker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-11

Contemporary Issues In Swahili Ethnography written by Iain Walker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-11 with Social Science categories.

The term ‘Swahili’ describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically filled roles as middlemen and merchants, the cosmopolitan products of a trading economy between Africa and the Indian Ocean world. This collection brings together anthropologists working on the greater Swahili world and the issues it confronts, dealing with societies from southern Somalia, northern Mozambique and the Comoro Islands, to Zanzibar and Mafia. The authors discuss a range of contemporary issues such as the shifting roles of Islam on the mainland coast; consumerism, conservation, memory and belonging in Zanzibar; how a Muslim society deals with HIV/AIDS; social change, development and political strategies in the Comoros; and Swahili women in London. The diversity of these themes reflects the diversity of the Swahili world itself: despite a cohesive cultural identity built upon shared practices, religious beliefs and language, the challenges facing Swahili people are multiple and complex. This book comprises articles originally published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies along with some new chapters.

Swahili Origins

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Author : James De Vere Allen
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1993

Swahili Origins written by James De Vere Allen and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Collections categories.

Kiswahili has become the lingua franca of eastern Africa and yet the history of the Swahili peoples has remained elusive. Some have described themselves as Arabs, as Persians, or even in one place as Portuguese. This book is James de Vere Allen's major study of the origin of the Swahili peoples and their cultural identity. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

Swahili And Sabaki

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Author : Derek Nurse
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1993

Swahili And Sabaki written by Derek Nurse and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Foreign Language Study categories.

The Sabaki languages form a major Bantu subgroup and are spoken by 35 million East Africans in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Comoro Islands. The authors provide a historical/comparative treatment of Swahili (and other Sabaki languages), an account of the relationship of Swahili to Sabaki and to other Bantu languages, and some data on contemporary Sabaki languages. Data sets, appendices, maps, and figures present essential information on phonology, lexical makeup, and tense/aspect morphology. The final chapter is a synthesis describing the linguistic and historical relationship of the Sabaki dialects to each other and to hypothetical proto-stages.

Anthropology And Autobiography

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Author : Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Annual Conference (1989 : York)
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1992

Anthropology And Autobiography written by Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Annual Conference (1989 : York) and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Autobiography categories.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

African Women In The Development Process

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Author : Nicki Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28

African Women In The Development Process written by Nicki Nelson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Business & Economics categories.

First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Way The World Is

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Author : Marc J. Swartz
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-15

The Way The World Is written by Marc J. Swartz and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-15 with Social Science categories.

Marc Swartz takes us for the first time into the homes and neighborhoods of the Swahili in the East African port of Mombasa. At the same time he develops a new model for the operation and transmission of culture. In asking how cultural elements influence the social behavior of those who do not share them as well as of those who do, Swartz points to the mediation of status. The many types of status available to individuals provide guidelines that help explain, for example, why the broadly shared elements of Swahili culture (Islamic religion or the nuclear family) do not alone translate into behavior. The Way the World Is demonstrates in a highly original way how culture "works." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Horn And Crescent

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Author : Randall L. Pouwels
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-06

Horn And Crescent written by Randall L. Pouwels and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-06 with History categories.

A major historical study of Islam among the Swahili.

On The Frontiers Of The Indian Ocean World

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Author : Philip Gooding
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-04

On The Frontiers Of The Indian Ocean World written by Philip Gooding and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-04 with History categories.

This is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Philip Gooding deploys diverse source materials, including oral, climatological, anthropological, and archaeological sources, to ground interpretations of the better-known, European-authored archive in local epistemologies and understandings of the past. Gooding shows that Lake Tanganyika's shape, location, and distinctive lacustrine environment contributed to phenomena traditionally associated with the history of the wider Indian Ocean World being negotiated, contested, and re-imagined in particularly robust ways. He adds novel contributions to African and Indian Ocean histories of urbanism, the environment, spirituality, kinship, commerce, consumption, material culture, bondage, slavery, Islam, and capitalism. African peoples and environments are positioned as central to the histories of global economies, religions, and cultures.