List of Figures
Foreword by Michael Jackson
Note on Orthography
Glossary
Preface
Part One: Prelude
1 Introduction: The Presence of History
2 Village Life: Kinship, Community, and Islam, 1975 and After
3 Founding the Villages, before 1975
Part Two: Exchange, Celebration, Ceremony, through 1995
4 Citizenship and Sociality: Practising Equality, 1975–1976
5 Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System, 1975–1985
6 Localizing Islamic Performances in Mayotte, 1975–1995
Part Three: Dancing to the Music of Time, through 2001
7 Choking on the Qur’an and Other Consuming Parables, 1975–1992
8 Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Postmodern Colony, to 1995
9 The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-dansant, to 2001
10 On the Move, through 2001
Part Four: Contingent Conviviality, through 2015
11 Marriage and Moral Horizons, 2015
12 Present Horizons, 2015
13 Summation: Mariam’s Mirror
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Credits
Index