1. Introduction Iain Walker
2. Medicines of hope? The tough decision for anti-retroviral use for HIV in Zanzibar, Tanzania Nadine Beckmann
3. ‘It’s not Islamic!’ Changing debates about what it means to be a good Muslim on Mafia Island, Tanzania Pat Caplan
4. Attempts at fusion of the Comorian educational systems: religious education in Comorian and Arabic and secular education in French Damir Ben Ali
5. Transmission of Muslim practices and women's agency in Ibo Island and Pemba (Mozambique) Francesca Declich
6. Reinterpreting revolutionary Zanzibar in the media today: The case of Dira newspaper Marie-Aude Fouéré
7. Integration and identity of Swahili speakers in Britain: case studies of Zanzibari women Ida Hadjivayanis
8. Constructing translocal socioscapes: consumerism, aesthetics, and visuality in Zanzibar Town Paola Ivanov
9. One hundred years in Brava: The migration of the Umar Ba Umar from Hadhramaut to East Africa and back, c. 1890-1990 Alessandra Vianello
10. Is social capital fungible? The rise and fall of the Sanduk microcredit project in Ngazidja Iain Walker
11. Chasing imaginary leopards: science, witchcraft and the politics of conservation in Zanzibar Martin Walsh and Helle Goldman
Biography
Iain Walker is Research Officer in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin
Luther University, and Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in
Halle, Germany. He has worked on a variety of themes in the Comoro Islands as well as
on migration, disapora, identity and belonging among Comorians and Hadramis in the
Western Indian Ocean.
