ISBN:
978-0-8214-1384-5
,
0-85255-796-5
,
0-85255-795-7
,
0-8214-1383-X
,
0-8214-1384-8
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 370 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Series Statement:
Eastern African Studies [42]
Keywords:
Sansibar Tansania
;
Popular Culture
;
Freizeit
;
Identität
;
Ethnizität
;
Stadt
;
Stadtforschung, ethnologische
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Soziales Leben
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Gemeindesoziologie
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Sozialgeschichte
Abstract:
In post-abolition Zanzibar ex-slaves re-created their individual and collective class, gender and ethnic identities as they struggled for social and economic empowerment. This study opens up new areas of enquiry regarding the interplay of gender, culture and social change in urban Africa.
Description / Table of Contents:
Zanzibar history, slavery and abolition -- Culture and community in Urban Zanzibar -- Ethnicity, identity, and belonging -- Being and becoming an Arab: citizenship, consumption, and race -- Methodology -- Dress, class, and ethnicity in the nineteenth century -- Dressing up: new identities and new clothes -- Islam, veiling and respectability -- Gender, politics, and cultural change -- Conclusion -- From Kiungani to Ng'ambo -- Hut tax, ground rent, and resistance to World War I -- Transformation in urban land tenure and the early years of ground rent in Ng'ambo -- Growing tensions over ground rent -- The ground rent strike of 1928 -- Arab and the creation of a Zanzibari identity -- Background on the band and the role of the religion in the rise of to fame -- The creative context of Siti's songs -- Continuity and change in the constellations of colonial power -- Gender and the colonial courts -- "When you wanted me I stayed with you, now do you not want me I have no need for you" -- Conclusion -- The early years of football in Zanzibar -- The politics of sport in colonial Zanzibar -- Ethnicity, nationalism, masculinity and community: the multiple meanings of football in island life -- Conclusion.
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