Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Note on Orthography; Glossary; Preface; Part One: Prelude; 1 Introduction: The Presence of History; 2 Village Life: Kinship, Community, and Islam, 1975 and After; 3 Founding the Villages, before 1975; Part Two: Exchange, Celebration, Ceremony, through 1995; 4 Citizenship and Sociality: Practising Equality, 1975-1976; 5 Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System, 1975-1985; 6 Localizing Islamic Performances in Mayotte, 1975-1995; Part Three: Dancing to the Music of Time, through 2001

7 Choking on the Qur'an and Other Consuming Parables, 1975-19928 Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Postmodern Colony, to 1995; 9 The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-dansant, to 2001; 10 On the Move, through 2001; Part Four: Contingent Conviviality, through 2015; 11 Marriage and Moral Horizons, 2015; 12 Present Horizons, 2015; 13 Summation: Mariam's Mirror; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Credits; Index