Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “This work is a substantial contribution to an improved interpretation of the commercial activities that linked Central and East Africa historically. Recommended.” • Choice
“This book is recommended for those who want to know more about the complexities of heritage-making processes and the important consequences these have for our understanding of the (hi)stories of the slave trade and other trades and trade routes in East Africa and beyond.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)
“This a unique case study of a contemporary process of heritagization in Bagamoyo, Tanzania… [and] at the same time an impressive in-depth historical account.” • Ruy Llera Blanes, University of Gothenburg
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
List of Maps and Figures
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Heritage-Making, Branding, and Globalization
Chapter 1. Bagamoyo: A History of Practices, Principles, and Partnership in Heritage-Making
Chapter 2. Heritage-Making: The 2002 International Conference
Chapter 3. Fractures in the Image of Bagamoyo: Despair or Joy?
Chapter 4. World Heritage and Globalization: The Bagamoyo Case
Part II: Commerce, Competition, and Consumerism: Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade
Chapter 5. Entrepreneurs and Explorers from the Heart of Africa
Chapter 6. Pawned, Preyed Upon, Purchased, or Punished: Slaves and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
Chapter 7. Conflicts and Clashes in the Competition over the Caravan Trade on the Central Routes
Chapter 8. Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade: The Entrance to the Heart of Africa
Chapter 9. Old Bagamoyo
Chapter 10. Fluid Identities: Politics of Identity in Multicultural Bagamoyo
Chapter 11. Conspicuous Competitive Consumption and Communication by Means of Cloth
Chapter 12. Intruders and Terminators: The End of the Story
Epilogue
Glossary
References
Index
