McIntosh The Edge of Islam

Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9096-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McIntosh, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Janet McIntosh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.