Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations among the Mombasa Swahili - Softcover

Swartz, Marc J.

 
9780520347311: Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations among the Mombasa Swahili
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520347315 ISBN 13: 9780520347311
Verlag: University of California Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Marc Swartz takes us for the first time into the homes and neighborhoods of the Swahili in the East African port of Mombasa. At the same time he develops a new model for the operation and transmission of culture.

In asking how cultural elements influence the social behavior of those who do not share them as well as of those who do, Swartz points to the mediation of status. The many types of status available to individuals provide guidelines that help explain, for example, why the broadly shared elements of Swahili culture (Islamic religion or the nuclear family) do not alone translate into behavior. The Way the World Is demonstrates in a highly original way how culture "works."

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marc J. Swartz is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and is the author of Political Anthropology (Aldine 1966), and Culture: The Anthropological Perspective (McGraw-Hill 1980).

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"There is no other book that covers such material as carefully or as richly as this. . . . Swartz has used his study to advance how we look at a people's culture, make sense of it, and of their lives."—Ronald Cohen, University of Florida

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520347315
ISBN 13 
9780520347311
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Anzahl der Seiten
372
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