Description: Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast : Uchawi in Pemba, Hardcover by Koenings, Nathalie Arnold, ISBN 1847013848, ISBN-13 9781847013842, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. For two centuries, Pemba, the second largest island of Zanzibar, has been known by East Africans and outsiders alike as rich in dangerous knowledge. Despite Pembans' reputation for piety and deep Islamic knowledge,uchawi- 'mystical work and power', sometimes termed 'magic', 'witchcraft', or 'sorcery' - has long featured in diverse visions of their identity and as key to worldly power. Today, as traditional methods of securing agency are called into question and new ways proliferate, the mystical world is an intensely conflicted realm where the nature of power, ethical action, and reality itself is continually reframed. This luminous ethnography follows Pemban notions of invisible and worldly power through the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964, the trials of multiparty democracy, the rise of Islamic revival, and intensifying neoliberalism. Through an exploration of rural imaginings of power, it argues that nations and the grammars that underwrite them are made in and by their peripheries, which give 'the centre' shape.? Highlighting the intersections of mystical practices, religion, and politics-as-such on the Swahili Coast, th contributes new perspectives to studies of the imagination, power, and religious transformation in Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the larger Islamic world.
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Book Title: Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast : Uchawi in Pemb
Number of Pages: 310 Pages
Publication Name: Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast : Uchawi in Pemba
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Africa / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethnic & Tribal
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.1 Oz
Author: Nathalie Arnold Koenings
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Series: Issn Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
