Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast

Uchawi in Pemba
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-84701-384-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 310 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Religion in Transforming Africa

Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has shaped the national narratives of both Zanzibar and Tanzania.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koenings, Nathalie Arnold

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Indigene Religionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I POWER
1. Kichawi dogsand Colonial Thinking
2. Ordinary Sorcery: The First Four Rooms of Uchawi's House
3. 'We Come to You Only as a Test': Uganga in Uchawi
4. The Sixth and Seventh Rooms: From Righteous Flight to Giving Lives in Turn
5. Uchawi as it Was: Power, Humour, Agony

PART 2 CRISIS
6. Revolution: Political Change and Mystical Authority
7. The Poetics of Loss: Hunger, Commodification, and the Withdrawal of Magic Books

PART 3 TRANSFORMATIONS
8. Emergenc(i)es: Politics and the Unseen
9. Islamic Revival, Dividing Jinns, and the New Uchawi

Conclusion: Locating Pemba Today

Über Autor(innen)

Koenings, Nathalie Arnold
NATHALIE ARNOLD KOENINGS is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Literary Arts and African Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her publications about Pemba include explorations of historical memory, sung poetry and the creation of politicised space, food discourse as history, and language and materiality. She has also published fiction and translations of Swahili literature. Her current ethnographic research concerns human relations to animals on the Swahili Coast.