Laura Fair
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 128541 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura Fair |
| NOMBRES | Laura |
| APELLIDO | Fair |
| FIRMA | FAIR L |
| AFILIACIONES | Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Veiling in Africa
Drive-In Socialism
IN MAY 1966, THE FIRST-and perhaps only-socialist drive-in on the planet opened in Tanzania, on the site of what is today the American embassy in the nation’s capital, Dar es Salaam.1 The brainchild of C. C. Patel, a cunning and well-connected insurance magnate with business, political, and family ties throughout East Africa, with the assistance of Second Vice-President Rashid Kawawa, a former actor, the drive-in was heralded by leading Tanzanian…
They stole the show
Utilizing rare and innovative source materials, including hundreds of interviews and survey responses, as well as box-office receipts and archival sources, this article provides path-breaking insights into the history of audience preferences in Tanzania from the 1950s to the 1980s. It reveals a long-term passion for Indian films amongst Tanzanians of all class, ethnic and gender backgrounds, and explores the nature of movie-going in Tanzania. Thi…
Making Love in the Indian Ocean
This chapter investigates how people on the Zanzibaricoast in the 1990s remembered the impact of the Bollywood blockbuster hit Awara on their visions of love and romance in late 1950s and 1960s. Awara is perhaps "the most successful film in the history of cinema at large," having been seen in more countries, and by more people, more times, than any other film in history. Bollywood films developed themes and issues in ways that were far more relev…
Pastimes and Politics
"Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa
Introduction - and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa, Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl McCurdy. Part 1 Contesting conjugality: women, marriage, divorce and the emerging colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904, Judith Byfield she thinks she's like a man - marriage and deconstructing gender identity in colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960, Margot Lovett wayward and useless men - contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo, Sou…
It's Just no Fun Anymore
Laura Fair, "It's Just no Fun Anymore": Women's Experiences of Taarab before and after the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, Special Issue: Leisure in African History (2002), pp. 61-81
Pastimes and Politics
Dressing Up
Pemba Peremba Ukija na winda, hutoka na kilemba Ukija na kilemba, hutoka na winda. (Proceed cautiously in Pemba If you come wearing a loin cloth, you leave wearing a turban If you come wearing a turban, you leave wearing a loin cloth.) Dress has historically been used as one of the most important and visually immediate markers of class, status and ethnicity in East African coastal society. As one of many forms of expressive culture, clothing prac…
Kickin' it
As C. L. R. James demonstrated inBeyond a Boundary, organised team sports epitomised the colonial attempt to inculcate hierarchy, stability and discipline into the minds and spirits of the colonised. These values were not, however, passively internalised. Taken as a microcosm of the colonial experience, this study of football in Zanzibar illustrates the limits of Europeans' ability to mould Africans' social experiences. Sport in Zanzibar, as else…
Identity, Difference, and Dance
Les performances musicales, la danse et le chant ont historiquement fournit un espace de critique important au debat public sur la hierarchie sociale et politique dans les societes cotieres d'Afrique orientale. Ces formes de cultures populaires fournissent un ensemble unique de sources richement detaillees qui nous permettent d'examiner les contestations du pouvoir social ainsi que les transformations dans les relations de classes, de genres et e…
Dressing Up
Pemba Peremba Ukija na winda, hutoka na kilemba Ukija na kilemba, hutoka na winda. (Proceed cautiously in Pemba If you come wearing a loin cloth, you leave wearing a turban If you come wearing a turban, you leave wearing a loin cloth.) Dress has historically been used as one of the most important and visually immediate markers of class, status and ethnicity in East African coastal society. As one of many forms of expressive culture, clothing prac…
Pastimes and Politics
Kickin' it
As C. L. R. James demonstrated inBeyond a Boundary, organised team sports epitomised the colonial attempt to inculcate hierarchy, stability and discipline into the minds and spirits of the colonised. These values were not, however, passively internalised. Taken as a microcosm of the colonial experience, this study of football in Zanzibar illustrates the limits of Europeans' ability to mould Africans' social experiences. Sport in Zanzibar, as else…
Identity, Difference, and Dance
Les performances musicales, la danse et le chant ont historiquement fournit un espace de critique important au debat public sur la hierarchie sociale et politique dans les societes cotieres d'Afrique orientale. Ces formes de cultures populaires fournissent un ensemble unique de sources richement detaillees qui nous permettent d'examiner les contestations du pouvoir social ainsi que les transformations dans les relations de classes, de genres et e…
Pastimes and Politics
It's Just no Fun Anymore
Laura Fair, "It's Just no Fun Anymore": Women's Experiences of Taarab before and after the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, Special Issue: Leisure in African History (2002), pp. 61-81
Identity, Difference, and Dance
Les performances musicales, la danse et le chant ont historiquement fournit un espace de critique important au debat public sur la hierarchie sociale et politique dans les societes cotieres d'Afrique orientale. Ces formes de cultures populaires fournissent un ensemble unique de sources richement detaillees qui nous permettent d'examiner les contestations du pouvoir social ainsi que les transformations dans les relations de classes, de genres et e…
Kickin' it
As C. L. R. James demonstrated inBeyond a Boundary, organised team sports epitomised the colonial attempt to inculcate hierarchy, stability and discipline into the minds and spirits of the colonised. These values were not, however, passively internalised. Taken as a microcosm of the colonial experience, this study of football in Zanzibar illustrates the limits of Europeans' ability to mould Africans' social experiences. Sport in Zanzibar, as else…
Dressing Up
Pemba Peremba Ukija na winda, hutoka na kilemba Ukija na kilemba, hutoka na winda. (Proceed cautiously in Pemba If you come wearing a loin cloth, you leave wearing a turban If you come wearing a turban, you leave wearing a loin cloth.) Dress has historically been used as one of the most important and visually immediate markers of class, status and ethnicity in East African coastal society. As one of many forms of expressive culture, clothing prac…
Pastimes and Politics
"Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa
Introduction - and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa, Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl McCurdy. Part 1 Contesting conjugality: women, marriage, divorce and the emerging colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904, Judith Byfield she thinks she's like a man - marriage and deconstructing gender identity in colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960, Margot Lovett wayward and useless men - contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo, Sou…
It's Just no Fun Anymore
Laura Fair, "It's Just no Fun Anymore": Women's Experiences of Taarab before and after the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, Special Issue: Leisure in African History (2002), pp. 61-81
Pastimes and Politics
Making Love in the Indian Ocean
This chapter investigates how people on the Zanzibaricoast in the 1990s remembered the impact of the Bollywood blockbuster hit Awara on their visions of love and romance in late 1950s and 1960s. Awara is perhaps "the most successful film in the history of cinema at large," having been seen in more countries, and by more people, more times, than any other film in history. Bollywood films developed themes and issues in ways that were far more relev…
They stole the show
Utilizing rare and innovative source materials, including hundreds of interviews and survey responses, as well as box-office receipts and archival sources, this article provides path-breaking insights into the history of audience preferences in Tanzania from the 1950s to the 1980s. It reveals a long-term passion for Indian films amongst Tanzanians of all class, ethnic and gender backgrounds, and explores the nature of movie-going in Tanzania. Thi…
Veiling in Africa
Drive-In Socialism
IN MAY 1966, THE FIRST-and perhaps only-socialist drive-in on the planet opened in Tanzania, on the site of what is today the American embassy in the nation’s capital, Dar es Salaam.1 The brainchild of C. C. Patel, a cunning and well-connected insurance magnate with business, political, and family ties throughout East Africa, with the assistance of Second Vice-President Rashid Kawawa, a former actor, the drive-in was heralded by leading Tanzanian…
African history and culture studies (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Politics (6 obras)