Capitalism and Cloves

Sarah K. Croucher is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. Her research broadly explores nineteenth-century African Diaspora contexts, largely through the study of East Africa. She is interested in questions of identity and power, and theoretical debates in historical archaeology. Her current research  is based in Middletown, Connecticut, where she directs a community archaeology project examining the Beman Triangle, a mid-nineteenth century free African American community associated with the AME Zion Church where she is examining racialized, gendered, and community identities in relation to the neighborhood landscape.

"Capitalism and Cloves is a brave book. It is based primarily on a surface survey of clove plantations in four areas of Unguja and Pemba islands, and the excavation of an Arab plantation owner's house near Piki on Pemba. ... is an original study that has much to recommend it. It raises important questions about Zanzibar's past and its interpretation, is replete with interesting observations, and will no doubt be consulted by students and researchers for many years to come." (Martin Walsh, Tanzanian Affairs, Issue 111, May-August, 2015)

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Why Clove Plantations? East African Archaeology, History and Anthropology.- Chapter 3: Plantation Landscapes.- Chapter 4: The Archaeology of Slavery.- Chapter 5: Plantation Households.- Chapter 6: Global Goods.- Chapter 7: Pemban People: Local Ceramics and Changing Identities.- Chapter 8: Capitalism and Cloves: East African Historical Archaeology.