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African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village

African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village

by Patricia Caplan

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 267 PAGES

An enormously detailed ethnographic portrait of life on the Swahili coast based on the author's interviews, encounters and research over several decades. She incorporates dialogue, her own observations and excerpts of the diary that her primary informant Mohammed kept at her request.  (EAF88, $43.95)


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