Pastimes and Politics

by Fair, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780821413845
• ISBN10: 0821413848
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Summary

This study opens up new areas of enquiry regarding the interplay of gender, cultureand social change in urban Africa.

Author Biography

Laura Fair is an associate professor in the department of history at the University of Oregon.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(63)
Zanzibar History, Slavery, and Abolition	10	(10)
Culture and Community in Urban Zanzibar	20	(8)
Ethnicity, Identity, and Belonging	28	(13)
Being and Becoming an Arab: Citizenship, Consumption, and Race	41	(15)
Methodology	56	(8)
Dressing Up: Clothing, Class, and Gender in Post-Abolition Zanzibar	64	(46)
Dress, Class, and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century	67	(7)
Dressing Up: New Identities and New Clothes	74	(11)
Islam, Veiling, and Respectability	85	(11)
Gender, Politics, and Cultural Change	96	(12)
Conclusion	108	(2)
``The Land Is Ours! Why Should We Pay Rent?'': Land, Law, and Housing in Colonial Ng'ambo	110	(59)
From Kiungani to Ng'ambo	113	(16)
Hut Tax, Ground Rent, and Resistance to World War I	129	(4)
Transformations in Urban Land Tenure and the Early Years of Ground Rent in Ng'ambo	133	(7)
Growing Tensions over Ground Rent	140	(8)
The Ground Rent Strike of 1928	148	(21)
The Music of Siti binit Saad: Creating Community, Crafting Identity, and Negotiating Power through Taarab	169	(57)
Taarab and the Creation of a Zanzibari Identity	171	(4)
Background on the Band and the Role of Religion in Their Rise to Fame	175	(7)
The Creative Context of Siti's Songs	182	(3)
Continuity and Change in the Constellations of Colonial Power	185	(10)
Gender and the Colonial Courts	195	(14)
``When you wanted me I stayed with you / Now you do not want me I have no need for you'': Love, Sex, and Rejection between the Wars	209	(14)
Conclusion	223	(3)
Colonial Politics, Masculinity, and Football	226	(39)
The Early Years of Football in Zanzibar	228	(12)
The Politics of Sport in Colonial Zanzibar	240	(8)
Ethnicity, Nationalism, Masculinity, and Community: The Multiple Meanings of Football in Island Life	248	(16)
Conclusion	264	(1)
Conclusion	265	(8)
Notes	273	(58)
Glossary	331	(4)
Bibliography	335	(30)
Index	365