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Biographies of Practice and the Negotiation of Swahili at Nineteenth-Century Vumbaries of contemporary concerns. Nevertheless, due to the wealth of detail provided as to the material practices of the Vumba elite, the traditions have become important in understandings of the deeper Swahili past, as well as in historical reconstructions of the nineteenth century. An approach to Vum

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The “Dirty” Material and Symbolic Work of “State” Building in Madagascar: From Indigenous State-Crafterial, linguistic, and conceptual crafting, in propaganda and in projects, of the icon of “the land” and the symbol of “the rule” to meet the needs of one ruler to reunite and reshape the polity of Imerina in the central highlands of Madagascar, and to subsequently envision an expansionist state. W

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The Politics of Absence: The Longue Durée of State–Peasant Interactions in the Siin (Senegal), 1850s cultural intertwinings, and unstable power fields. While these “tensions of empire” were often played out on material terrains, one may wonder the extent to which they are manifested in archaeological situations. Using textual and material archives, this essay examines the intersection of colonial

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Modernity’s Rush: Time, Space, and Race in the Shadows of the Diamond Fieldsth Africa. I am interested in understanding how the relationship between the speculative spirit of rush camps, and the physical routes of traded diamonds conspired to transform the Diamond Fields into what later would become one of the first projects of urban segregation in South Africa. To understa

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François G. RichardDecember 1963, from a shrine in Shrinagar, of a strand of hair believed to be of the Prophet Mohammad caused him real concern. This holy relic, so the tradition went, had been brought to India from Medina in the seventeenth century and, in due course, found its habitat in Kashmir. Its sudden disappe