| 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. |
Cite/Export
Preview this item