Muted Memories

Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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 centrality of the caravan trade, both culturally and economically, to Bagamoyo’s development and cosmopolitan character, while also exploring how this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt728 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor398
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781789201727

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List of IllustrationsList of Maps and FiguresPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Heritage-Making, Branding, and GlobalizationChapter 1. Bagamoyo: A History of Practices, Principles, and Partnership in Heritage-MakingChapter 2. Heritage-Making: The 2002 International ConferenceChapter 3. Fractures in the Image of Bagamoyo: Despair or Joy?Chapter 4. World Heritage and Globalization: The Bagamoyo CasePart II: Commerce, Competition, and Consumerism: Bagamoyo and the Caravan TradeChapter 5. Entrepreneurs and Explorers from the Heart of AfricaChapter 6. Pawned, Preyed Upon, Purchased, or Punished: Slaves and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East AfricaChapter 7. Conflicts and Clashes in the Competition over the Caravan Trade on the Central RoutesChapter 8. Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade: The Entrance to the Heart of AfricaChapter 9. Old BagamoyoChapter 10. Fluid Identities: Politics of Identity in Multicultural BagamoyoChapter 11. Conspicuous Competitive Consumption and Communication by Means of ClothChapter 12. Intruders and Terminators: The End of the StoryEpilogueGlossaryReferencesIndex

“This work is a substantial contribution to an improved interpretation of the commercial activities that linked Central and East Africa historically. Recommended.” • Choice“This book is recommended for those who want to know more about the complexities of heritage-making processes and the important consequences these have for our understanding of the (hi)stories of the slave trade and other trades and trade routes in East Africa and beyond.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)“This a unique case study of a contemporary process of heritagization in Bagamoyo, Tanzania… [and] at the same time an impressive in-depth historical account.” • Ruy Llera Blanes, University of Gothenburg