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.
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.
Janet McIntosh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.
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
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
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