ISBN:
9780821426135
,
9780821426128
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 329 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
Series Statement:
Indian Ocean studies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ray, Daren E., 1982- Ethnicity, identity, and conceptualizing community in Indian Ocean East Africa
DDC:
305.8009676
Keywords:
Ethnicity History
;
Communalism
;
Africa, East Ethnic relations
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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