Search Results for ethnicity

... to inhabit the island. As explorers began to arrive, the island slowly became inhabited. People from other areas then followed in their path. There is a certain degree of hypocrisy in the history of Madagascar, with a lot of injustice. The ethnic group from the Hauts-Plateaux, which dominated for a long...

... . Aljunied Syed Muhd Khairudin . “ The Global Effects of an Ethnic Riot: Singapore 1950–1954 .” In Singapore in Global History , edited by Heng Derek and Aljunied Syed Muhd Khairudin , 173 – 94 . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2011 . Alpers Edward . “ Becoming...

... as anthropologists turned to “writing against culture.” 3 This is a curious reversal of roles, to say the least. Until recently, anthropologists enjoyed a near-monopoly on “culture” and its cognate concepts of ethnicity and community. Yet now, they shy away from the term altogether or seek postmodern surrogates...

... that those who shared ship passages together continued to turn to one another for support. Some historians, such as Jennifer Nelson, have even suggested that shipmate bonds could transcend ethnic identifications in the Americas. 11 While evidence for such powerful bonds is not always present...

... to the sustained trade networks in India. In relaying his personal anecdote while at an ethnically diverse spice firm in India, Tagliacozzo reflects much older trade routes, thus signifying the continued relevance of historical networks and ethnic connections in the modern day (305). His personal stories bring...

... society as one in which different ethnic groups meet only in the marketplace, but do not combine. In J. S. Furnivall's original formulation, plural society is in the strictest sense a medley, for they [ethnic groups] mix but do not combine. Each group holds by its own religion, its own culture...

... before final transportation to Mauritius parallels similar experiences reported for the Atlantic traffic. 2 Hooper is equally careful to query the ethnic labels like “Mozambique” attached by British administrators to individual complainants and comments further on the frequency of name-changing...

... the Mijikenda, seen as indigenous to the coast were cast as “native,” a once fluid ethnic identity becoming more rigid. 17 In the colonial period, many classified as Arab or Asian took advantage of the privileges afforded by non-native status, but “most occupied the awkward position of having neither...

... onto a hierarchy of other social distinctions: religious (Muslim versus non-Muslim), ethnic (Arab, Swahili, Mijikenda), cultural (civilized versus barbaric), and spatial (town versus hinterland). 22 Ranked ethnic and social schema were essentially racialized, and as a result, people thought...

.... But it is at this turn that I felt an ethnicization of the debate also began to take place around issues relating to heritage and memory. Discussions on preserving the history and heritage of slavery and indenture occurred through two very emblematic sites: Le Morne mountain, which was considered a refuge for maroon...

... the etymology of Muscat itself. Many found in the term evidence of disparate provenances and infusions of languages and ethnicities, corroborating the city's wide contacts beyond its frontiers. Arabic sources posit that Muscat could be closely related to the past tense of Sak'at سقط , which means “fell,” 8...

... developed” sense of “national unity,” there is a “comparative absence of marked ethnic conflict” in the country. 44 Mozambique's violent internal uprisings and historically regional tensions were not “specifically ethnic in character.” 45 In tandem with this tendency, The First Wife can be examined...

... “ethnicity in process.” 31 It is a convincing assumption that the Makua language they came to speak was a lingua franca that evolved to match the needs of this ethnic processing—a caravan or barracoon language, as suggested by Edward A. Alpers—and this is also agreed to as the most likely possibility...

... Malagasy or central Asians and even enslaved Arabs were found. These forms of slavery had different categorizations. When enslaved people of the various ethnic groups were brought from the mainland to Zanzibar in the middle of the nineteenth century, purchasers there always considered the slaves...

... and American traders, East African caravan merchants, and countless cargo-laden dhows. 22 The impact of the empire's burgeoning prosperity on its ethnically and religiously diverse populace went beyond mere infrastructural developments and the globalization of trade. It fostered a nurturing environment...

... groups (Islamist activists in Kuwait). Fuccaro suggests the study of the definition of public versus private space in oil cities as a venue for social and political interaction. In particular, the distribution pattern of residential areas based on ethnicity, class, and religious affiliation needs...

... been accompanied by particular anxieties or conflicts. These have to do with rivalries between members of the ruling clan and their respective factions, but also with national politics, and with echoes of ethnic tensions. One year the issue was AIDS: the venue and occasion were used to promote safe sex...

... that the community of Muslims, not any ethnic, kin, or regional grouping, is the primary unit of identification. 10 Although the leader of the community was “imam of the Muslims” and all formal discourse indicated no limits to the scope of the community other than adherence to Islam, the imamate in this century...

... to idealize the non-European and precolonial. Whether that is by portraying precolonial Africa not as an idyllic untouched space outside of time or by airing the dirty laundry of the many ethnic and religious conflicts of the Indian Ocean that cannot be blamed on Europe, Gurnah highlights the often...

...) is like demographically. A major way is to identify where the ancestors of the various ethnic groups came from: around 70 percent of today's population are from India, the so-called Indo-Mauritians; some 20 percent are the descendants of African slaves, in Mauritius called “Creoles”; some 2 percent...