Capitalism and cloves : an archaeology of plantation life on nineteenth-century Zanzibar /: an archaeology of plantation life on nineteenth-century Zanzibar. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Archaeology of plantation life in nineteenth century Zanzibar; Capitalism and Cloves
• Further Information: Note: Sarah K. Croucher.
• Authors: Croucher, Sarah K
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Chapter-1; Introduction; Global Historical Archaeology; Feminist Archaeology of the African Diaspora; Methodology; Organization of the Book; References; Chapter-2; Why Clove Plantations: East African Archaeology, History, and Anthropology; Urbanism; Early Colonialism; The Caravan Trade, Arabs Move Inland; Clove Plantations; Slavery; Immigration; Swahili, Arab, and African Identities; Historical Archaeology in East Africa; Directions of Research; References; Chapter-3; Plantation Landscapes; Gazing at Plantations; The Plantation as an Object. The Scopic Regime of Plantation LandscapesCartography; Methodologies; Mapping Zanzibar; Land Ownership; Owning Land on Zanzibar; Capitalist Production, Alternative Spatial Logics; References; Chapter-4; The Archaeology of Slavery; The Archaeology of Slavery on Zanzibar; Islamic Slavery in Africa; Remembering Slavery; Autonomous Landscapes of Slavery; Slavery, Resistance, and Swahili Culture; Slave Housing; Religion and Resistance; Islamic Practice on Zanzibar; Violence and Benevolence; Freedom; The Nature of Zanzibari Plantation Slavery; References; Chapter-5; Plantation Households. Households as Units of AnalysisStone Houses; Omani Identities; Wattle-and-Daub Planters' Houses; Networks of Power; Female Plantation Owners Practicing Patriarchy; Sexual Slavery; Plantation Households; References; Chapter-6; Global Goods; Global Trade on Zanzibar; Trade Beads; Imported Ceramics on Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar; Wealth and Reciprocity on Zanzibar; The Purchase of Goods on Zanzibar; Global Capitalist Relations; Meanings of Exchange; References; Chapter-7; Pemban People: Local Ceramics and Changing Identities; Ceramics and Clove Plantations; Regional Style. Contemporary ProductionFood and Identity on Zanzibar; Communities of Practice; Slavery and Ceramics; Pemban Identities; References; Chapter-8; Capitalism and Cloves: East African Historical Archaeology; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 300 330.9492 900 930.1; Social sciences; Plantation life -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History -- 19th century; Clove trade -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History -- 19th century; Capitalism -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History -- 19th century; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar; Archaeology and history -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar; History & Archaeology; Archaeology; Plantation life; Plantation life -- Tanzania; History; Archaeology; Social Sciences; Archaeology; History, general; History -- General; History; Social Science -- Archaeology; Archaeology; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1441984712; 9781441984715
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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