ISBN:
9780821426135
,
0821426133
,
9780821426128
,
0821426125
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 329 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Indian Ocean studies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Ethnizität
;
Identität
;
Indischer Ozean
;
Ostafrika
;
Ethnicity / Africa, East / History
;
Communalism / Africa, East
;
Africa, East / Ethnic relations
;
Communalism
;
Ethnic relations
;
Ethnicity
;
Africa, East
;
History
;
Ostafrika
;
Indischer Ozean Region
;
Ethnizität
;
Identität
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
