Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Chapter-1; Introduction; Global Historical Archaeology; Feminist Archaeology of the African Diaspora; Methodology; Organization of the Book; References; Chapter-2; Why Clove Plantations: East African Archaeology, History, and Anthropology; Urbanism; Early Colonialism; The Caravan Trade, Arabs Move Inland; Clove Plantations; Slavery; Immigration; Swahili, Arab, and African Identities; Historical Archaeology in East Africa; Directions of Research; References; Chapter-3; Plantation Landscapes; Gazing at Plantations; The Plantation as an Object

The Scopic Regime of Plantation LandscapesCartography; Methodologies; Mapping Zanzibar; Land Ownership; Owning Land on Zanzibar; Capitalist Production, Alternative Spatial Logics; References; Chapter-4; The Archaeology of Slavery; The Archaeology of Slavery on Zanzibar; Islamic Slavery in Africa; Remembering Slavery; Autonomous Landscapes of Slavery; Slavery, Resistance, and Swahili Culture; Slave Housing; Religion and Resistance; Islamic Practice on Zanzibar; Violence and Benevolence; Freedom; The Nature of Zanzibari Plantation Slavery; References; Chapter-5; Plantation Households

Households as Units of AnalysisStone Houses; Omani Identities; Wattle-and-Daub Planters' Houses; Networks of Power; Female Plantation Owners Practicing Patriarchy; Sexual Slavery; Plantation Households; References; Chapter-6; Global Goods; Global Trade on Zanzibar; Trade Beads; Imported Ceramics on Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar; Wealth and Reciprocity on Zanzibar; The Purchase of Goods on Zanzibar; Global Capitalist Relations; Meanings of Exchange; References; Chapter-7; Pemban People: Local Ceramics and Changing Identities; Ceramics and Clove Plantations; Regional Style

Contemporary ProductionFood and Identity on Zanzibar; Communities of Practice; Slavery and Ceramics; Pemban Identities; References; Chapter-8; Capitalism and Cloves: East African Historical Archaeology; References; Index