Ethnicity, identity, and conceptualizing community in Indian Ocean East Africa / Daren E. Ray
"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 o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2024] |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Indian Ocean studies series
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| Classification: | 15.92 - Afrika südlich der Sahara |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 329 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karten; 23 cm |
| Notes: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 295-317 |
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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