| Series |
Indian Ocean studies series
Indian Ocean studies series. ^A1287326
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| 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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ray, Daren E., 1982- Ethnicity, identity, and conceptualizing community in Indian Ocean East Africa Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2023 9780821426142 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023013525 |
| ISBN | 9780821426135 |
| ISBN | 0821426133 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780821426128 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0821426125 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
