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AFRICAN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES
OF THE 20TH CENTURY

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Volume 13

CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN A
SWAHILI COMMUNITY

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CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN A
SWAHILI COMMUNITY

Property, Hierarchy and Cognatic Descent on
the East African Coast

ANN PATRICIA CAPLAN

First published in 1975 by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute.

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1975 International African Institute

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CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN A
SWAHILI COMMUNITY

PROPERTY, HIERARCHY, AND
COGNATIC DESCENT ON THE
EAST AFRICAN COAST

Ann Patricia Caplan

Published for

THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE

by

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON NEW YORK NAIROBI

1975

CONTENTS

1. xi
2. xiii
3. xiv

Oxford University Press, Ely House, London W.1

GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON
CAPE TOWN IBADAN NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM LUSAKA ADDIS ABABA
DELHI BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI LAHORE DACCA
KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE HONG KONG TOKYO

ISBN 0 19 724195 6

International African Institute 1975

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press

Printed in Great Britain by
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd.,
Bungay, Suffolk

For Bibi Emma

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Field-work on the Island of Mafia was financed by a Travelling Studentship from the University of London, and by a supplementary grant from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. The University of London also financed the subsequent writing-up period. I am extremely grateful to these two bodies for their assistance.

I am also very much indebted to the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, first of all for permission to work on Mafia, and secondly for facilitating my work in every possible way. In particular, I should like to thank Mr. Njopeka, who was the Islands Area Commissioner at the time of field-work, and the members of his staff.

During my time in Tanzania, I was attached to the University College, Dar es Salaam, and I wish to express my gratitude to members of the academic and administrative staffs for their helpfulness.

Much practical assistance with problems of accommodation, transport, and other matters was given by many people, in particular Mr. Pyarali Kassam, Mr. H. Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. P. Green, and Mr. and Mrs. DSousa. Many others on the Island made my stay pleasant and rewarding, and I should like to express my appreciation to Mzee Jumanne Yusufu, Sheikh Msabah Rashid, Bwana Hamis Makame of Baleni, and Bwana Abedi Mzee of Banja. To my cook and helper Salum Ali Yesu I am more grateful than I can say for his unfailing good humour and good sense.

Most of all, I must thank the people whom this work concerns, the villagers of Minazini. The great kindness and patience of people too numerous to mention made my stay among them a most enriching experience.

Finally, I owe a debt of gratitude to the late Professor Wilfred Whiteley, who not only taught me Swahili, but also made possible a visit to the coast in 1962, and later acted as my supervisor while I carried out field-work; also to my former supervisor Professor Philip Gulliver, for his unfailing interest and much-needed encouragement while I was writing up this material for a University of London Ph.D. thesis. Other members of the Department of Anthropology of the School of Oriental and African Studies made helpful comments on drafts of this book, especially Professor J. Middleton, and Drs. D. Parkin and L. Caplan. None of these people are responsible, however, for any of its shortcomings.

This book is about property and power relations in a Swahili village, Minazini, situated in northern Mafia Island off the southern coast of Tanzania, where I carried out field-work between 1965 and 1967. My initial interest in the East African coast was stimulated while I was a student taking a B.A. course in African Studies at London University. I later chose to carry out field-work in this area because, although much had been written of a general nature about the east coast (cf. Bailey 1965 for bibliography), and several anthropologists had worked there (cf. references to Lienhardt, Middleton, Prins, Tanner, and Wijeyewardene in the bibliography) no monograph had yet appeared in print. Indeed, although other anthropologists have subsequently carried out field research on the coast (cf. Bujra 1968), they still have not published their findings in any detail.

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