| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
African social studies series ; v. 37 |
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African social studies series ; v. 37
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| Contents |
Intro; Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean: Swahili Speaking Networks on the Move; Copyright; Contents; Transliteration, Orthography and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Translocal Relations across the Indian Ocean: An Introduction; Part 1: Translocality in the Past; 1 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brava: A Swahili Cultural Enclave in a Somali Context; 2 Sufism, Salafism, and the Discursive Tradition of Religious Poetry in Brava; 3 Translocal Links and Women Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Somalia; Part 2: Vectors (Carriers) of Translocality |
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4 Sasa, pote, majeshi yetu duniani: Swahili Poetry and the Translocal Moment of World War II5 Translocality, Texts and Discourses: Ritual Transformations of Islamic Sacrifices in Tanzania; Part 3: Reflections (Representations) of Translocal Connections; 6 Local Ideas of Fashion and Translocal Connections: A View from Upcountry Tanganyika; 7 Translocal Interconnections within the Swahili Spirit World: The Role of Pemba and the Comoro Islands / Madagascar; Part 4: Experiencing Translocality: Translocality from the Bottom -- Translocality in Daily Experience |
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8 Translocal Experiences and Intersecting Mobilities: Reflections on Motility and Actual and Imagined Movability in Contemporary Zanzibar9 Skype, Facebook, and Chat Rooms: New Modes of Expression and Changing Gender Relations among Swahili Youth at Home and Abroad; 10 Integration and Identity of Swahili Speakers in England: Case Study of Swahili Women; 11 Swahili Elites and the Concept of Long-Distance Nationalism within the Diaspora; Index |
| Summary |
The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Swahili-speaking peoples -- History
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Ocean travel -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Ocean travel
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Swahili-speaking peoples
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Declich, Francesca
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| ISBN |
9789004365988 |
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9004365982 |
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