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

摘要

Zanzibaris have imbued 'Swahili' and other ethnonyms with meanings that have shifted over time, reflecting the islands' changing political and economic fortunes. These have been shaped by trade linking the archipelago to the mainland hinterlands and distant points across the Indian Ocean, Omani rule, slavery, British control, independence in 1963, revolution and union with mainland Tanzania in 1964, decades of one-party socialism, IMF-imposed economic liberalisation, and a stormy transition to multi-party politics. Against this historical backdrop, the anthropology of Zanzibar has probed issues of identity, race, religious syncretism and mobility (e.g. Middleton 1994; Larsen 2008).