Janet Mcintosh

The Edge of Islam

Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

Janet McIntosh

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Language xiii
Introduction. The Edge of Islam 1
1. Origin Stories: The Rise of Ethnic Boundaries on the Coast 45
2. Blood Money in Motion: Profit, Personhood, and the Jini Narratives 89
3. Toxic Bodies and Intentional Minds: Hegemony and Ideology in Giriama
Conversion Experiences 127
4. Rethinking Syncretism: Religious Pluralism and Code Choice in a Context
of Ethnoreligious Tension 177
5. Divination and Madness: The Powers and Dangers of Arabic 221
Epilogue 257
Notes 263
Bibliography 289
Index 313