Muted memories : heritage-making, Bagamoyo, and the East African caravan trade / Jan Lindström.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindström, Jan, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ivory industry--Tanzania--History.

Ivory industry.

Bagamoyo (Tanzania)--History--19th century.

Bagamoyo (Tanzania).

Bagamoyo (Tanzania)--Commerce--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019.

Summary:

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--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Heritage-making, branding, and globalization

Bagamoyo: a history of practices, principle, and partnership in heritage-making

Heritage-making: the 2002 international conference

Fractures in the image of Bagamoyo: despair or joy?

World heritage and globalization: the Bagamoyo case

Commerce, competition, and consumerism: Bagamoyo and the caravan trade

Entrepreneurs and explorers from the Heart of Africa

Pawned, preyed upon, purchased, or punished: slaves and slavery in the nineteenth-century East Africa

Conflicts and clashes in the competition over the caravan trade on the central routes

Bagamoyo and the caravan trade: the entrance to the Heart of Africa

Old Bagamoyo

Fluid identities: politics of identity in multicultural Bagamoyo

Conspicuous competitive consumption and communication by means of cloth

Intruders and terminators: the end of the story

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789201734

178920173X

OCLC:

1081372130