Contemporary Issues in Swahili Ethnography

ISBN-13: 9780367132873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 220 str.

Iain Walker

Opis

The term ‘Swahili’ describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast. In this volume, the authors discuss a range of contemporary issues: the shifting roles of Islam on the mainland coast; consumerism, conservation, memory and belonging in Zanzibar; how a Muslim society deals with HIV/AIDS; social change, development and political strategies in the Comoros; and Swahili women in London. This reflects the diversity of the Swahili world: despite a cohesive cultural identity built upon shared practices, religious beliefs and language, the challenges facing Swahili people are multiple and complex. This book includes articles first published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Iain Walker  2. Medicines of hope? The tough decision for anti-retroviral use for HIV in Zanzibar, Tanzania Nadine Beckmann  3. ‘It’s not Islamic!’ Changing debates about what it means to be a good Muslim on Mafia Island, Tanzania Pat Caplan  4. Attempts at fusion of the Comorian educational systems: religious education in Comorian and Arabic and secular education in French Damir Ben Ali  5. Transmission of Muslim practices and women's agency in Ibo Island and Pemba (Mozambique) Francesca Declich  6. Reinterpreting revolutionary Zanzibar in the media today: The case of Dira newspaper Marie-Aude Fouéré  7. Integration and identity of Swahili speakers in Britain: case studies of Zanzibari women Ida Hadjivayanis  8. Constructing translocal socioscapes: consumerism, aesthetics, and visuality in Zanzibar Town Paola Ivanov  9. One hundred years in Brava: The migration of the Umar Ba Umar from Hadhramaut to East Africa and back, c. 1890-1990 Alessandra Vianello  10. Is social capital fungible? The rise and fall of the Sanduk microcredit project in Ngazidja Iain Walker  11. Chasing imaginary leopards: science, witchcraft and the politics of conservation in Zanzibar Martin Walsh and Helle Goldman