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Pastimes and Politics : Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945 /
This study opens up new areas of enquiry regarding the interplay of gender, cultureand social change in urban Africa.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens : Oxford [England] :
Ohio University Press ; J. Currey,
2001.
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| Colección: | Eastern African studies (London, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.