Ethnicity, identity, and conceptualizing community in Indian Ocean East Africa / Daren E. Ray

• VerfasserIn: Ray, Daren E. 1982-
• Place / Publishing House: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2024]
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Indian Ocean studies series
• Classification: 15.92 - Afrika südlich der Sahara
• Physical Description: XIV, 329 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karten; 23 cm
• Notes: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 295-317

"Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, and documentary evidence, this book uses a cis-oceanic framework to focus on littoral communities. It clarifies the relationship between ethnicity and other kinds of identities by framing research questions around a language family instead of an ethnic, religious, or diasporic group"

Table of Contents

Introduction. Disentangling Ethnicity from Its Ancestors in Littoral Kenya -- Ancestors in the Doorway: Claiming Kith and Kin in East Africa before 500 CE -- Making a Peaceful Home: Organizing Clans through Knowledge along Sabaki Frontiers, ca. 150 BCE-1250 CE -- Dancing with Swords: Domesticating Commerce through Clan Confederations in the Western Indian Ocean ca. 1000-1700 CE -- Polarizing Politics: Imperial Ventures in Dar al-Islam, 1498-1813 -- Practicing Muslims, Marginalized Pagans: Accommodating Arab Orthodoxies in the Zanzibar Sultanate, 1813-1895 -- Gazetting Identity: Assembling Tribes and Demarcating Districts in the British East Africa Protectorate, 1895-1920 -- Historicizing Tribalism: A Kaleidoscope of Communities in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, 1921-1953 -- Transcending Ethnicity?: Nationalist Sentiments and the Appeal of Autonomy during Kenyan Decolonization, 1953-1962 -- Epilogue. Reconciling Ethnicity and Nationalism