Pastimes and politics : culture, community, and identity in post-abolition urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945 / Laura Fair.

Author/creator Fair, Laura
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : Ohio University Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 2001.
Descriptionxvi, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEastern African studies
Eastern African studies (London, England) ^A236551
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-364) and index.
LCCN 00067756
ISBN082141383X (Ohio University Press : alk. paper)
ISBN0821413848 (Ohio University Press : pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0852557957 (paper)
ISBN0852557965 (cloth)

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Joyner General Stacks DT499.Z28 F35 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold