Where are the Women When the Tourists Arrive?: Bodies, Space, and Islamic Femininity in Rural Zanzibar

Since the 1980s, tourism has risen to become the most important source of foreign income for the islands of Zanzibar. This case study of a previously subsistence village that now hosts transnational tourists reveals how intersecting ideas about gender and ethnicity influence work choices made by ind...

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Main Author: Demovic, Angela R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2016]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-27
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Zanzibar / Tourism / Woman / Vocational choice / Islam / Separation by sex
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
NCB Personal ethics
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