Main entry:

Fair, Laura, author.

Title & Author:

Pastimes and politics : culture, community, and identity in post-abolition urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945 / Laura Fair.

Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press ; Oxford [England] : James Currey, 2001.

Description:

xvi, 370 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm.

Series:

Eastern African studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-364) and index.
Zanzibar history, slavery and abolition -- Culture and community in Urban Zanzibar -- Ethnicity, identity, and belonging -- Being and becoming an Arab: citizenship, consumption, and race -- Methodology -- Dress, class, and ethnicity in the nineteenth century -- Dressing up: new identities and new clothes -- Islam, veiling and respectability -- Gender, politics, and cultural change -- Conclusion -- From Kiungani to Ng'ambo -- Hut tax, ground rent, and resistance to World War I -- Transformation in urban land tenure and the early years of ground rent in Ng'ambo -- Growing tensions over ground rent -- The ground rent strike of 1928 -- Arab and the creation of a Zanzibari identity -- Background on the band and the role of the religion in the rise of to fame -- The creative context of Siti's songs -- Continuity and change in the constellations of colonial power -- Gender and the colonial courts -- "When you wanted me I stayed with you / Now do you not want me I have no need for you" -- Conclusion -- The early years of football in Zanzibar -- The politics of sport in colonial Zanzibar -- Ethnicity, nationalism, masculinity and community: the multiple meanings of football in island life -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of island residents were in an incredible flux framed by the abolition of slavery, the introduction of colonialism, and a tide of urban migration. Pastimes and Politics explores the era from the perspective of the urban poor, highlighting the numerous and varied ways that recently freed slaves and other immigrants to town struggled to improve their individual and collective lives and to create a sense of community in the new environment. In this study Laura Fair explores a range of cultural and social practices that gave expression to slaves' ideas of emancipation, and describes how such ideas and practices were gendered."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

082141383X (alk. paper)
9780821413838 (alk. paper)
0821413848 (Ohio University Press ; pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780821413845 (Ohio University Press ; pbk. ; alk. paper)
0852557957 (paper)
9780852557952 (paper)
0852557965 (cloth)
9780852557969 (cloth)

Subject:

Popular culture Tanzania Zanzibar.
Identity (Psychology) Tanzania Zanzibar.
Group identity Tanzania Zanzibar.
Leisure Tanzania Zanzibar.
Ethnicity Tanzania Zanzibar.
Culture populaire Tanzanie Zanzibar.
Identité (Psychologie) Tanzanie Zanzibar.
Identité collective Tanzanie Zanzibar.
Loisir Tanzanie Zanzibar.
Ethnicité Tanzanie Zanzibar.
Zanzibar.
colonialism.
abolition of slavery.
working class.
urban areas.
urban life.
history.
1850-1899.
1900-1949.
Ethnicity
Group identity
Identity (Psychology)
Leisure
Manners and customs
Popular culture
Ethnizität
Soziale Wirklichkeit
Stadt
Volkskultur
Cultuur.
Maatschappij.
Identiteit.
Steden.
Politiek.
Zanzibar Social life and customs 20th century.
Zanzibar Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle.
Tanzania Zanzibar
Sansibar

Added entries:

Eastern African studies (London, England)

Holdings:

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Call No.: 315909
Copy: 1
Status: External loan

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