Mirroring Modernity: on consumerism in cosmopolitan Zanzibar

Contenu

Titre

Mirroring Modernity: on consumerism in cosmopolitan Zanzibar

Créateur

Prestholdt, Jeremy Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2009

Dans

Transforming Cultures eJournal Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

This essay develops an image of nineteenth century Zanzibari consumer sensibilities by demonstrating how goods from and new engagements with distant locales affected the socio-cultural landscape of Zanzibar. The East African port’s particular cosmopolitanism represents one form of social reconstitution stimulated by global integration. It also represents a material vision of global relations that was discounted by nineteenth century theorizations of Western modernity. By focusing on the rise of a new materiality in Zanzibar, I excavate precolonial visions of global relations and cultural assimilations of global symbols. I argue that East African desires for goods produced all over the globe represented not simply a Westernization, Indicization, or Arabization of Zanzibar, but also a reconfiguration of a standardized set of global materials in an attempt to bring Zanzibari cultural forms into conversation with broader global trends.

Sujet

Zanzibar Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Langue

eng

volume

4

numéro

2

pages

165-204

doi

10.5130/tfc.v4i2.1383

issn

1833-8542

uri

https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view/1383

Prestholdt, Jeremy, “Mirroring Modernity: on consumerism in cosmopolitan Zanzibar”, 2009, bibliographie, consulté le 19 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/9645