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Introduction -- Multilingual Classification to Translingual Ontology: A Turning Point -- Stabilised and Emergent Multilingualism -- Language Choice in two Kampala Housing Estates -- Language Switching -- The Creativity of Abuse -- Exchanging Words -- Political Language -- Language, Government and the Play on Purity and Impurity: Arabic, Swahili and the Vernaculars in Kenya -- Being and Selfhood among Intermediary Swahili -- Controlling the U-turn of Knowledge -- The Politics of Naming among the Giriama -- Unpacking Anthropology: Review Article -- Revisiting: Key Words, Transforming Phrases and Cultural Concepts -- Loud Ethics and Quiet Morality among Muslim Healers in Eastern Africa -- Reason, Emotion and the Embodiment of Power -- The Power of Incompleteness: Innuendo in Swahili Women's Dress -- Simultaneity and Sequencing in the Oracular Speech of Kenyan Diviners.

This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups. However, the new national boundaries suddenly made aliens of peoples who had migrated and settled in towns distant from their home countries. The interplay of

Over the centuries among many peoples, wind, air, breath, and notions of soul and life‐force have been regarded as intertwined semantically and in their effects on the world. Humans and intangible and invisible non‐human agents are often said to share these elements. Life as breath and wind as spirit, and both as evidence of consciousness, intention or soul, allow persons to abridge what they otherwise view as the separate domains of solid and non‐solid phenomena. They may understand them as transformable one into the other: human becoming spirit and spirit taking on human characteristics and form. The further association of this complex with smell reinforces the cyclical idea of human and non‐human transformation, by presenting it as what we ethnocentrically call a material and spiritual cycle, because smell itself has molecular origin and effect and yet, as regards vision and touch, can be elusive like spirit. The particular case described is of Bantu‐speaking inhabitants of the East African coast, and shows how Muslims and non‐Muslims have common metaphysical assumptions concerning this semantic cluster despite differences of religious belief.

Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement and Experience in Okiek Women's Initiation. Corinne A. Kratz. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. 470 pp.