Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa

Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East AfricaAuthor(s): Daren E. Ray\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821426128, 978-0821426128\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores how the people of littoral East Africa imagined and reimagined their communities over two millennia of engagement with Indian Ocean transformations-from the settlement of Bantu speakers near the coast around the first century CE to their participation in transoceanic commerce, imperial rivalries, colonial projects, and decolonization movements in the mid-twentieth century. Like other histories of the Indian Ocean, it emphasizes the circulation of people and ideas, but its cis-oceanic approach demonstrates how these littoral communities continued to integrate strategies from those in Africas interior as well as from people who traveled the ocean.\n The book also clarifies the precise relationship between ethnicity an.