Swahili modernities
Subtitle: culture, politics, and identity on the east coast of Africa
By: edited by Pat Caplan and Farouk Topan.
Contributors: Caplan, Patricia.; Topan, Farouk.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Trenton, N.J; Asmara, Eritrea
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Swahili-speaking peoples -- Africa, East -- Congresses; Swahili-speaking peoples -- Ethnic identity -- Congresses; Swahili-speaking peoples -- Africa, East -- Social life and customs -- Congresses; Pueblos de habla suahili -- Africa Oriental -- Congresos; Pueblos de habla suahili -- Africa Oriental -- Vida social y costumbres -- Congresos
Genres: Congresses.; Congresos.
Notes: Papers from a two day conference held in London, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Pat Caplan; title: Modernity has been Swahili-ised : the case of Malindi / Susan Beckerleg; title: Cultural pluralism in a coastal town of East Africa : a study of Bagamoyo / S.A.K. Mlacha; title: "Struggling to be modern" : recent letters from Mafia Island / Pat Caplan; title: Modernity and the meaning of development within the Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania / Christine J. Walley; title: The monetization of matrimonial prestations in the Comorian Great Marriage / Francoise Le Guennec-Coppens; title: Political violence, ethnicity and the agrarian question in Zanzibar / Greg Cameron; title: Change, continuity and contestation : the politics of modern identities in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen; title: "Going with the times" : conflicting Swahili norms and values today / Mohamed Ahmed Saleh; title: Political poetry among the Swahili : the Kimondo verses from Lamu / Assibi A. Amidu; title: Taarab songs as a reflection of the changing socio-political reality of the Swahili / Paul M. Musau; title: Modernity or adaptability? The incorporation of foreign words into Swahili poetry / José Arturo Saavedra; title: From Mwana Kupona to Mwavita : representations of female status in Swahili literature / Farouk Topan.