ISBN:
0822390965
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0822344963
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0822345099
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9780822390961
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9780822344964
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9780822345091
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 325 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 e-Duke books scholarly collection Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Edge of Islam : Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast
DDC:
305.80096762
Keywords:
Ethnic conflict Religious aspects
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Giryama (African people) Social life and customs
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Swahili-speaking peoples Social life and customs
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Giryama (African people) Religion
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Muslims
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Malindi (Kenya) Ethnic relations
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Malindi (Kenya) Social life and customs
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Abstract:
Explores ethnoreligious tensions in coastal Kenya between the impoverished Giriama people and their neighbors, the privileged Swahili and Arab communities, and documents the Giriama's idiosyncratic uses of Islam and their conflicted relationship with it
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON LANGUAGE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 - Origin Stories: The Rise of Ethnic Boundaries on the Coast; CHAPTER 2 - Blood Money in Motion: Profit, Personhood,and the Jini Narratives; CHAPTER 3 - Toxic Bodies and Intentional Minds: Hegemony and Ideology in Giriama Conversion Experiences; CHAPTER 4 - Rethinking Syncretism: Religious Pluralism and Code Choice in a Context of Ethnoreligious Tension; CHAPTER 5 - Divination and Madness: The Powers and Dangers of Arabic; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390961?locatt=mode:legacy
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822390961
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