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Title: | Social and intercultural relations in nineteenth-century Zanzibar: dressed identity |
Author: | Vander biesen, Ivan |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | African and Asian Studies |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 309-331 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zanzibar |
Subjects: | social structure group identity clothing Swahili 1800-1899 |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/156921009X458136 |
Abstract: | Starting from the nineteenth-century descriptive literatures on Zanzibar by authors such as Sir Richard Burton and Charles Guillain, and Salima bint Said-Ruete's autobiography, we can draw a rather detailed picture of the relationship between the different social layers, cultures and genders on Zanzibar. Describing and differentiating the complexity of Zanzibari Swahili society in the nineteenth century is the main aim of this paper. The focus is on clothing in order to sketch the social organization of the society and to highlight the cultural relations between the different groups in Zanzibar. The evidence obtained from the description of clothing is used as an eye-opener for the Zanzibar society and this evidence is supported by nineteenth-century literature and photography on Zanzibar. Bibliogr., gloss., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |