Swahili Modernities: Culture, politics and identity on the East Coast of Africa

Caplan, Patricia; Topan, Farouk

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Title:	Swahili Modernities: Culture, politics and identity on the East Coast of Africa
Editors:	Caplan, Patricia Topan, Farouk
Chapter(s):	Present
Year:	2004
Pages:	235
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Trenton, NJ
Publisher:	Africa World Press
ISBN:	1592210457; 1592210465
Geographic term:	East Africa
Subjects:	Swahili social change ethnic identity literature conference papers (form) 2001
Abstract:	This book, the product of the fifth conference (London, 2001) in a series of interdisciplinary Anglo-French Workshops, contains thirteen papers by contributors from a wide range of disciplines discussing modernity and the impact of recent historical changes on the East Coast of Africa. It commences with an introduction to the topic by Pat Caplan. The other papers are: Modernity has been Swahili-ised: the case of Malindi (in the Lamu Archipelago, Kenya) (Susan Beckerleg); Cultural pluralism in a coastal town of East Africa: a study of Bagamoyo (Tanzania) (S.A.K. Mlacha); 'Struggling to be modern': recent letters from Mafia Island (Pat Caplan); Modernity and the meaning of development within the Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania (Christine J. Walley); The monetization of matrimonial prestations in the Comorian great marriage (Francoise Le Guennec-Coppens); Political violence, ethnicity and the agrarian question in Zanzibar (Greg Cameron); Change, continuity and contestation: the politics of modern identities in Zanzibar (Kjersti Larsen); 'Going with the times': conflicting Swahili norms and values today (Tanzania/Zanzibar) (Mohamed Ahmed Saleh); Political poetry among the Swahili: the Kimondo verses from Lamu (Kenya) (Assibi A. Amidu); Taarab songs as a reflection of the changing socio-political reality of the Swahili (Paul M. Musau); Modernity or adaptability? The incorporation of foreign words into Swahili poetry (José Arturo Saavedra); From Mwana Kupona to Mwavita: representations of female status in Swahili literature (Farouk Topan). [ASC Leiden abstract]