Karibu Stranger, Come Heal Thy Host: Hospitality as Historical Subject in Southwestern Tanzania, 1600–1900

摘要: Abstract This study focuses on hospitality in Tanzania, as a topic of historical importance. Although there are many references to within both primary and secondary sources anecdotal accounts, is effectively unexplored the scholarship for any part sub-Saharan Africa. Looking at southwestern Tanzania between 1600 1900 case study, this work aims make hospitality, first time, focus rather than peripheral passing allusion. Towards that end, I examine why when some societies chose extend outsiders strangers. In sixteenth nineteenth centuries, extending guests, strangers, ‘foreign residents’ was paramount value social expectation, which could result inclusion outsiders. Hospitality towards newcomers became cultural norm. contend direct, immediate, personal gain far less important circulation ho...