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A M at e r ia l C u lt u r e
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A Material Culture
Consumption and Materiality on the Coast
of Precolonial East Africa
S t e p ha n i e W y n n e - J o n e s
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Preface
vi Preface
a ssistance, and they have been attributed where necessary. All other
images are my own.
Many colleagues and friends have contributed to this volume, either
directly or indirectly. I am grateful to them all. In particular, I would like
to thank Jeffrey Fleisher, always a ready source of encouragement and
wisdom. Less direct contributions have come from discussions with
colleagues, including Mark Horton, Søren Sindbæk, Sheila Kohring,
Seth Priestman, and Elizabeth Lambourn. Thanks also to three
anonymous reviewers, who made this a much better book. I am
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Contents
List of Plates ix
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xv
References 203
Index 231
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List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Tables
Plate 1. Mihrab of mosque at Gede, showing holes that would have contained
inlaid bowls, now robbed
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Africa’s eastern littoral borders the Indian Ocean, providing the setting
for the settlements, people, and language known collectively as Swahili,
which have been a key part of that ocean’s trading networks for at least
two millennia. Graeco-Roman sailors visited the now-forgotten metrop-
olis of Rhapta, and their voyages were recorded in the narratives that
later became the first-century Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Casson
1989). Traces of that early contact survive in the form of beads and
coins, yet are limited in number and diffuse in nature (Chami and
Msemwa 1997a; Horton 1990). From the seventh century onwards, a
series of more permanent settlements began to monopolize this trade;
by the eleventh century some of these had grown into towns that were
able to control and provide a focus for the mercantile opportunities of
the Indian Ocean. The trading economy of Swahili towns was based
on the wealth of the African continent—gold and ivory were par-
ticularly valuable exports—and underlain by a mixed economy and
diverse population of fishers and farmers, traders and craft-workers
(Horton and Middleton 2000; Kusimba 2008). By the ‘golden age’
of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Swahili were an
African society of considerable cosmopolitanism and fame, with
towns like Kilwa Kisiwani known throughout the medieval world
(Sutton 1993, 1997).
Swahili archaeology is focused, conceptually and methodologically,
on the series of stone towns that grew up along Africa’s eastern
coast from the end of the first millennium ad (Figure 1.1). These
towns developed as key nodes in both local and international net-
works of interaction, and became the conduits through which the
African continent traded and communicated with the wider Indian
Ocean world. The material settings of the towns, and particularly
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2 A Material Culture
Figure 1.1. Map of the eastern African coast, showing major sites mentioned
in the text
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Introduction 3
4 A Material Culture
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