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Author Keshodkar, Akbar.

Title Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar : Struggles for Identity, Movement, and Civilization.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages)
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Contents Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Historical Articulations of Being Zanzibari; Chapter Three: Movements in Post-Socialist Zanzibar; Chapter Four: Moving Through the Tourism Landscape; Chapter Five: Contesting Models of Modernity; Chapter Six: Movement of Haya and Heshima; Chapter Seven: The Role of Kinship; Chapter Eight: Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
Summary Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar examines how Zanzibaris are struggling to move through the local landscape in the post-socialist era dominated by tourism. Using the theoretical framework of movement, this book highlights how Zanzibaris move and develop various dispositions to re-articulate their identities. This book also investigates how notions of ustaarabu, a word expressing "civilization" in Zanzibar, are being re-conceptualized and shaped by emerging forces of.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Social change -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar.
Social change.
Tanzania -- Zanzibar.
Tourism -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar.
Tourism -- Social aspects.
Zanzibar -- Social conditions -- 1964-
Chronological Term Since 1964
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Keshodkar, Akbar A. (Akbar Abdulali), 1974- Tourism and social change in post-socialist Zanzibar. Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, 2013 9780739175439 (DLC) 2013028455 (OCoLC)856054382
ISBN 9780739175446 (electronic book)
0739175440 (electronic book)
9780739175439 (cloth)
0739175432 (cloth)