The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast

Autor:	Janet McIntosh
Předmět:	Muslims--Kenya--Malindi, Giryama (African people)--Kenya--Malindi--Social life and customs, Swahili-speaking peoples--Kenya--Malindi--Social life and customs, Giryama (African people)--Kenya--Malindi--Religion, Ethnic conflict--Kenya--Malindi--Religious aspects
Kategorie:	HISTORY / Africa / East, RELIGION / Islam / Rituals & Practice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
Popis:	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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