...Valerie J. Hoffman Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast Kai Kresse Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Library, London, 2007 xvi, 288 pp., $120.00 (cloth), £70.00, (paper) Duke University Press 2011...

..., but, in Taussig's terms, “palpable” and “sensuous.” © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 translation Swahili coast Swahili poetry mimesis appropriation literary network aesthetics utendi I would like to thank Julia and Markus Verne for their initiative to bring together contributions...

... Swahili coast as an example, Ivanov argues that the translocal space of the Indian Ocean evolves from practices of mimetic appropriation, in which aesthetic properties of partners in transoceanic exchange are embodied. In doing so, translocal Swahili culture reveals a nondichotomous, complex way in which...

...Andrew J. Eisenberg Employing approaches from ethnomusicology and vocal anthropology, Eisenberg undertakes an interpretive-ethnographic analysis of Indian taarab , a genre of Swahili song on the Kenyan coast that features Swahili words set to Hindi film song melodies performed in a distinctly...

...., with a focus on the ways in which those who live at, with, and from the Indian Ocean experience this translocal space and render it meaningful. As a result, an understanding of the Indian Ocean emerges in which its size, shape, and range change with the topics at stake. Taking the Swahili coast as a case...

... the physical matter of life on the Swahili coast. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 material culture transculturation Swahili coast oceanic art histories References Allen James de Vere . “The Kiti Cha Enzi and Other Swahili Chairs.” African Arts 22 , no. 3 ( 1989 ): 54 – 88...

.... Moreover, in the 1580s the Swahili coast became part of a renewed Ottoman geopolitical initiative that extended the empire's influence to Indian Ocean Africa, making the Swahili coast a field of struggle among Indian Ocean, Atlantic, and Mediterranean states. 32 At the end of the sixteenth century...

... and global interconnect- Coast.” edness. In her recent works she dealt particularly with translocality and its relationship with aesthetics in the Adam Mestyan is an assistant professor of modern Muslim coastal societies in East Africa (“Swahili Middle Eastern history at Duke University. His latest...

...- lonial theorists have done, Winegar takes these posi- Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, tions to task by showing how local artists, especially and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast those who are not celebrated by the international Kai Kresse art market, wish to reconcile...

...- lonial theorists have done, Winegar takes these posi- Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, tions to task by showing how local artists, especially and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast those who are not celebrated by the international Kai Kresse art market, wish to reconcile...

... the impact of the circulation of aesthetic forms on the Swahili coast, as well as the sensory and material experiences that result from diffusion and mimesis. Clarissa Vierke’s article Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 183 Vol. 37, No. 2, 2017...

... articles Swahili studies at MESAAS, Columbia University, and have appeared in journals such as Cultural Anthropol- author of Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, ogy, American Ethnologist, Contributions to Indian Sociol- and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast (Edinburgh ogy...

... Sea trade, only ties The more recent, by Abdulaziz Lodhi, a member about one-third of the slaves exported from the Swahili of the Stockholm University group project, suggests coast actually left Africa, most being absorbed at Zanzi- greater ethnic consciousness among some groups of bar...

...: Revelry, Rebellion and Popular Consciousness on World Press, 2004). See also the collection of essays Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century the Swahili Coast, 1856–1888 (London: James Currey, dedicated to these complex issues in “The African Di- (London: Routledge, 1989); Clarence-Smith...

...- on the East African coast to life in the Gulf and South- terparts in West Africa. But the Swahili coast is a dif- ern Arabia. East African laborers migrated and toiled ferent story. Here there was a 1,000-year-old tradition...

... serv- slaves or freed slaves based on the coast or Zanzibar ice, polygyny, cooperative forms of labor and, in who were partly or completely acculturated into some places, wage labor? Where Africans were not Swahili society but whose origin could be any of the significantly involved...

... sixteenth century. East Africa and observe the same style of door     and its decoration in use on the Swahili coast. This? For these sailors...

.... 38. See Bowen, Muslims through Discourse; and Giles, “Possession Cults on the Swahili Coast: 42. See Ho, Graves of Tarim; and Mark Sedg- Becker, Becoming Muslim, chap. 5. A Re-­examination of Theories of Marginality,” wick, Saints and Sons: The Making and Remak...

... of peninsular India and along the Swahili coast. Against British colonial and Quranic expectations of patriarchy, patrilineality, and patrilocality, the Muslims of Malabar or their counterparts in the Malay and Sulu archipelagos follow a matriarchal, matrilineal, and matrilocal system of kinship, marriage...

... in Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar.” In The Global Worlds of the Swahili: Interfaces of Islam, Identity, and Space in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century East Africa , edited by Loimeier Roman Seesemann Rüdiger , 251 – 73 . Berlin : Lit , 2006 . Loimeier Roman . Between Social Skills...