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Choice and Constraint in a Swahili Community: Property, Hierarchy and Cognatic Descent on the East African Coast - African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century Ann Patricia Caplan 1st edition
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Choice and Constraint in a Swahili Community: Property, Hierarchy and Cognatic Descent on the East African Coast - African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
Ann Patricia Caplan
Originally published in 1975, this book examines property and power relations in a Swahili village on Mafia Island off Tanzania. It focuses on the cognatic descent groups which are important in many areas of village life such as land-holding, marriage, residence, Islamic activities and spirit possession cults.
176 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 22, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138493278 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 184 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 490 g |
| Language | English |
