Introduction: cognitive workers, cognitive bodies -- ENCODING RACE -- Imagining the Indian IT body -- The postracial office -- Proprietary freedoms in an IT office -- ENCODING CLASS -- The stroke of midnight and the spirit of entrepreneurship : a history of the computer in India -- Computers are...

For centuries, trade links have connected South Asia with the East Coast of Africa. This study analyses the major changes on the political, economic and societal level in past and present Tanzania with their respective effects on Asians in this country. The empirical data are based on fieldwork...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Benennung und Verteilung der asiatischen Minderheit in Ostafrika -- Die Untergruppen der asiatischen Minderheit -- Die Rolle der Minderheit in der Wirtschaft -- Die politische Stellung der asiatischen Minderheit -- Ansatzpunkte zu weiteren Forschungsarbeiten.