Title Making identity on the Swahili coast : urban life, community, and belonging in Bagamoyo / Steven Fabian

Published Cambridge, United States ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 343 pages) Series African identities: past and present African identities: past and present. Contents Introduction -- Owners of the town: Shomvi, Zaramo, Nyamwezi, & Indians -- Owners of the town: Baluchis, Omanis, & Spiritans -- Becoming Wabagamoyo: a local vocabulary for a Swahili town -- The particularities of place: space, identity, and the coastal rebellion of 1888-1890 -- Colonial power, community identity, and consultation -- "Curing the cancer of the colony": undermining local attachments -- Epilogue Summary Situated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of German East Africa, the thriving caravan and port town of Bagamoyo, Tanzania is one of many diverse communities on the East African coast which has been characterized as 'Swahili'. Seeking an alternate framework for understanding community and identity, Steven Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood. Revealing how townspeople - Africans, Arabs, Indians, and Europeans alike - created a local vocabulary which referenced aspects of everyday town life and bound them together as members of a shared community, this first extensive examination of Bagamoyo's history from the pre-colonial era to independence uses a new lens of historical analysis to emphasize the importance of place in creating local, urban identities and suggests a broader understanding of these concepts historically along the Swahili Coast Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 27, 2019) Subject Swahili-speaking peoples -- Tanzania -- Bagamoyo Swahili-speaking peoples -- Ethnic identity Ethnic relations Social conditions Swahili-speaking peoples Swahili-speaking peoples -- Ethnic identity Bagamoyo (Tanzania) -- Social conditions Bagamoyo (Tanzania) -- History Bagamoyo (Tanzania) -- Ethnic relations Tanzania -- Bagamoyo Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108590853 1108590853 9781108581929 1108581927

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