The Swahili : the social landscape of a mercantile society /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell Publishers,
2000.
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Series: | Peoples of Africa.
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Table of Contents:
- The Swahili Coast
- Origins
- The acceptance of Islam
- The Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean world
- The trading system of the Swahili Coast
- The urban landscape
- Social networks
- Governance
- Knowledge, purity and power
- Constructing the mercantile landscape.