Research Catalog

Title

Contesting identities : the Mijikenda and their neighbors in Kenyan coastal society / Rebecca Gearhart and Linda Giles, editors.

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Gearhart, Rebecca, 1966-
• Giles, Linda L.

Description

xxxviii, 308 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Mijikenda (African people) > Kenya
• Giryama (African people) > Kenya
• Ethnicity > Indian Coast
• Ethnology > Indian Coast
• Indian Coast (Kenya) > Ethnic relations
• Indian Coast (Kenya) > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Cynthia Brantley -- Introduction / Rebecca Gearhart and Linda Giles -- Part I. Reinterpreting the Past: 1. The identity of early Kenyan coastal peoples : a comparative analysis of human remains from Mtwapa, Shanga, and Taita Hills / Chapurukha M/ Kusimba, Janet M. Monge, and Sibel B. Kusimba; 2. The Segeju complex? : linguistic evidence for the precolonial making of the Mijikenda / Martin Walsh -- Part II. Perspectives on Identity: 3. Complexities of identity in the East African coastal area / Linda L. Giles; 4. Loss of purity? : Kenyan ethnic politics and the reality of Giriama fantasies of coastal culture / Monica Udvardy; 5. Exploring the power of bango music : a quest for identity in diversity / Kaingu Kalume Tinga -- Part III. Cultural Contestations: 6. Legacies of nineteenth century racial formation at the coast of East Africa : historiography and the academic suppression of subaltern epistemology / Jesse Benjamin; 7. Paths to prosperity : Pokomo and Giriama migrant workers in Lamu / Rebecca Gearhart; 8. Kajiwe's witchfinding movement and the challenge to Swahili cultural hegemony / Diane Ciekawy; 9. The democratic roots in Mijikenda polity / Katama Mkangi -- Part IV. Contemporary Movements: 10. The Kaya legacy : the role of the Mijikenda Makaya and Kaya elders in postcolonial Kenya / John Baya Mitsanze and Linda Giles; 11. Symbols of indigenous identity : Ndata leadership staffs of Kaya elders in Kilifi District, Kenya / Amini H. Tengeza and Celia Nyamweru; 12. Identity politics and culture in coastal Kenya : the role of the Malindi District Cultural Association / Celia Nyamweru; 13. The long journey home : the theft and repatriation of Giriama memorial statues (vigango) / Linda L. Giles, Monica Udvardy, with John Baya Mitsanze.

ISBN

• 9781592218974 (hard cover)
• 1592218970 (hard cover)
• 9781592218981 (pbk.)
• 1592218989 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012034649

OCLC

864911325

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library