Muted memories : heritage-making, Bagamoyo, and the East African caravan trade /

In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year from the African interior to Bagamoyo, a port town at the Indian Ocean. In the opposite direction, they carried millions of meters of cloth, manufactured in the USA, Europe, and India. This book examines the centra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindström, Jan, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Temas:
1800-1899
Ivory industry > Tanzania > History.
Slave trade > Tanzania > Bagamoyo.
Esclaves > Commerce > Tanzanie > Bagamoyo (Pwani)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Commerce
Ivory industry
Slave trade
Bagamoyo (Tanzania) > History > 19th century.
Bagamoyo (Tanzania) > Commerce > History.
Tanzania
Tanzania > Bagamoyo
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Heritage-making, branding, and globalization
  • Bagamoyo : a history of practices, principle, and partnership in heritage-making
  • Heritage-making: the 2002 international conference
  • Fractures in the image of Bagamoyo: despair or joy?
  • World heritage and globalization: the Bagamoyo case
  • Commerce, competition, and consumerism: Bagamoyo and the caravan trade
  • Entrepreneurs and explorers from the Heart of Africa
  • Pawned, preyed upon, purchased, or punished: slaves and slavery in the nineteenth-century East Africa
  • Conflicts and clashes in the competition over the caravan trade on the central routes
  • Bagamoyo and the caravan trade: the entrance to the Heart of Africa
  • Old Bagamoyo
  • Fluid identities: politics of identity in multicultural Bagamoyo
  • Conspicuous competitive consumption and communication by means of cloth
  • Intruders and terminators: the end of the story
  • Epilogue.

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