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000707011 1001_ $$aMiddleton, John,$$d1921-2009.
000707011 24514 $$aThe world of the Swahili :$$ban African mercantile civilization /$$cJohn Middleton.
000707011 260__ $$aNew Haven :$$bYale University Press,$$cc1992.
000707011 300__ $$axii, 254 p. :$$bill., maps ;$$c24 cm.
000707011 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-247) and index.
000707011 50500 $$tThe Swahili people and their coast --$$tThe merchants and the predators --$$tTowns --$$tKinship, descent, and family --$$tPerpetuation and alliance --$$tTransformation of the person --$$tPower, ritual, and knowledge --$$tCivilization and identity.
000707011 5201_ $$a"The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. In this book a leading Africanist presents the first full-length anthropological account of the Swahili and offers an original analysis of their little-understood and unusual culture." "Swahili towns, some urban with elegant stone buildings and others more rural with palm-leaf-matting houses, are spread along the thousand-mile East African coast. Because each local community is culturally different from its neighbors, previous historians and anthropologists have viewed the Swahili as a series of isolated and "detribalized" groups. John Middleton argues, on the contrary, that beneath the cultural variation is a single structure, that of a well-defined and complex trading society that has shown little change through the ages. Drawing on his own field research and on earlier writings on the Swahili, Middleton describes this centuries-old mercantile culture--its local and descent groupings, marriage patterns, religion, and values. He traces the history of their colonized past as subjects to Arabs, portuguese, British, and others and shows that, although their economic and political role has continually been a subordinate one, their sense of unique identity enables then to persist as an ongoing civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
000707011 650_0 $$aSwahili-speaking peoples$$xCommerce.
000707011 650_0 $$aSwahili-speaking peoples$$xKinship.
000707011 650_0 $$aSwahili-speaking peoples$$xSocial life and customs.
000707011 651_0 $$aLamu (Kenya)$$xCommerce.
000707011 651_0 $$aLamu (Kenya)$$xSocial life and customs.
000707011 651_0 $$aZanzibar$$xCommerce.
000707011 651_0 $$aZanzibar$$xSocial life and customs.
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