Chapter Seven Print Media, the Swahili Language, and Textual Cultures in Twentieth-Century Tanzania, ca. 1923–1939

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introducti on Indigenous Textual Cultures, the Politics of Difference, and the Dynamism of Practice 1
5. Part I Archives & Debates
6. Chapter One Ka Waihona Palapala Mānaleo: Research in a Time of Plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian-Language Archives 29
7. Chapter Two Kanak Writings and Written Tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia’s 1917 War 60
8. Chapter Three Māori Literacy Practices in Colonial New Zealand 80
9. Part II Orality & Texts
10. Chapter Four “D on’t Destroy the Writing”: Time-and Space-Based Communication and the Colonial Strategy of Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century Salish-Missionary Relations on Canada’s Pacific Coast 99
11. Chapter Five Talking Traditions: Orality, Ecology, and Spirituality in Mangaia’s Textual Culture 131
12. Chapter Six Polynesian Family Manuscripts (Puta Tupuna) from the Society and Austral Islands: Interior History, Formal Logic, and Social Uses 154
13. Part III Readers
14. Chapter Seven Print Media, the Swahili Language, and Textual Cultures in Twentieth-Century Tanzania, ca. 1923–1939 173
15. Chapter Eight Going Off Script: Aboriginal Rejection and Repurposing of English Literacies 195
16. Chapter Nine “R ead It, Don’t Smoke It!”: Developing and Maintaining Literacy in Papua New Guinea 216
17. Part IV Writers
18. Chapter Ten Colonial Copyright, Customs, and Indigenous Textualities: Literary Authority and Textual Citizenship 243
19. Chapt er Eleven He Pukapuka Tataku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui: Reading Te Rauparaha through Time 263
20. Chapt er Twelve Writing and Beyond in Indigenous North America: The Occom Network 289
21. Bibliography 315
22. Contributors 345
23. Index 349