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The edge of Islam : power, personhood, and ethnoreligious boundaries on the Kenya Coast / Janet McIntosh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McIntosh, Janet, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic conflict--Kenya--Malindi--Religious aspects.
- Ethnic conflict.
- Swahili-speaking peoples--Kenya--Malindi--Social life and customs.
- Swahili-speaking peoples.
- Giryama (African people)--Kenya--Malindi--Religion.
- Giryama (African people).
- Giryama (African people)--Kenya--Malindi--Social life and customs.
- Muslims--Kenya--Malindi.
- Muslims.
- Malindi (Kenya)--Ethnic relations.
- Malindi (Kenya).
- Malindi (Kenya)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The edge of Islam
- Origin stories : the rise of ethnic boundaries on the Coast
- Blood money in motion : profit, personhood, and the Jini narratives
- Toxic bodies and intentional minds : hegemony and ideology in Giriama conversion experiences
- Rethinking syncretism : religious pluralism and code choice in a context of ethnoreligious tension
- Divination and madness : the powers and dangers of Arabic.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064967
- 9781283064965
- 1283064960
- 9780822390961
- 0822390965
- OCLC:
- 428151332
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