Burning the Mabanda: Incendiary Acts, Interpretive Frames, and Iconoclash in the Indian Ocean

Bissell, William Cunningham

doi:10.1162/AFAR_a_00012

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September 01 2012

Burning the Mabanda: Incendiary Acts, Interpretive Frames, and Iconoclash in the Indian Ocean

William Cunningham Bissell

William Cunningham Bissell is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Lafayette College. His most recent book, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar (2011), focuses on the irrationality and incoherence of modern planning. bissellw@lafayette.edu

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William Cunningham Bissell

William Cunningham Bissell is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Lafayette College. His most recent book, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar (2011), focuses on the irrationality and incoherence of modern planning. bissellw@lafayette.edu

Online ISSN: 1937-2108

Print ISSN: 0001-9933

2012

African Arts (2012) 45 (3): 70–83.

https://doi.org/10.1162/AFAR_a_00012

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