Muted Memories : : Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade / / Jan Lindström.
In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year from the African interior to Bagamoyo, a port town at the Indian Ocean. In the opposite direction, they carried millions of meters of cloth, manufactured in the USA, Europe, and India. This book examines the centra...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps and Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Heritage-Making, Branding, and Globalization
- 1. Bagamoyo: A History of Practices, Principles, and Partnership in Heritage-Making
- 2. Heritage-Making: The 2002 International Conference
- 3. Fractures in the Image of Bagamoyo: Despair or Joy?
- 4. World Heritage and Globalization: The Bagamoyo Case
- Part II. Commerce, Competition, and Consumerism: Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade
- 5. Entrepreneurs and Explorers from the Heart of Africa
- 6. Pawned, Preyed Upon, Purchased, or Punished: Slaves and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
- 7. Conflicts and Clashes in the Competition over the Caravan Trade on the Central Routes
- 8. Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade: The Entrance to the Heart of Africa
- 9. Old Bagamoyo
- 10. Fluid Identities: Politics of Identity in Multicultural Bagamoyo
- 11. Conspicuous Competitive Consumption and Communication by Means of Cloth
- 12. Intruders and Terminators: The End of the Story
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- References
- Index