Janet Mcintosh

Gebundenes Buch

The Edge of Islam

Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Janet McIntosh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344964
• ISBN-10: 0822344963
• Artikelnr.: 26552430