Ayan Salaad
Biographic Data
| ID | 4170698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayan Salaad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayan |
| FAMILY NAME | Salaad |
| SIGNATURE | SALAAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Representations of Indian Ocean Ecologies, Heritage and Kinship in Banaadiri Fishing Poems and Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea
This article brings Yvonne Owuor’s 2019 Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo. 2019. The Dragonfly Sea. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. [Google Scholar] novel The Dragonfly Sea into conversation with nine Banaadiri fishing poems called geeraarro, a form of classical Somali oral poetry in the maanso category. I explore the ways in which ideas of labour, kinship, and cultural heritage are presented in the fishing poems created over generations by an Indian Ocean coast…
Embodiment and Memories
This article brings into conversation two pieces of Indian Ocean fiction about women, a Banaadiri wedding song, called ‘Waa Guuriheeynnaa,’ and Cristina Ali Farah’s published work A Dhow is Crossing the Sea. I interrogate what constitutes female kinship, coastal identity, cultural heritage, and the ties between these phenomena through a comparative analysis of the two forms of literature. I assess how both works express kinship between coastal wo…
Undocumented Textiles
In this article, I explore the way that a work song called “Hooyaalaadee” reveals the importance of women’s textile labor to the Banaadiri people, the Somali nation and the wider Indian Ocean textile industry. Although written historiography has not adequately documented southern Somalia’s rich textile industry, the Banaadiri woman facilitates a multitude of narratives about this important textile trade through performing this oral work song. “Ho…
Banaadiri Fishing Geeraarro
The Banaadiri people live on the coast of Southern Somalia, which stretches from Warsheikh to Kismayo geographically, but culturally from Warsheikh to Barawe. Haji Mehdi Haji, better known as Haji
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Undocumented Textiles
In this article, I explore the way that a work song called “Hooyaalaadee” reveals the importance of women’s textile labor to the Banaadiri people, the Somali nation and the wider Indian Ocean textile industry. Although written historiography has not adequately documented southern Somalia’s rich textile industry, the Banaadiri woman facilitates a multitude of narratives about this important textile trade through performing this oral work song. “Ho…
Banaadiri Fishing Geeraarro
The Banaadiri people live on the coast of Southern Somalia, which stretches from Warsheikh to Kismayo geographically, but culturally from Warsheikh to Barawe. Haji Mehdi Haji, better known as Haji
Representations of Indian Ocean Ecologies, Heritage and Kinship in Banaadiri Fishing Poems and Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea
This article brings Yvonne Owuor’s 2019 Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo. 2019. The Dragonfly Sea. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. [Google Scholar] novel The Dragonfly Sea into conversation with nine Banaadiri fishing poems called geeraarro, a form of classical Somali oral poetry in the maanso category. I explore the ways in which ideas of labour, kinship, and cultural heritage are presented in the fishing poems created over generations by an Indian Ocean coast…
Embodiment and Memories
This article brings into conversation two pieces of Indian Ocean fiction about women, a Banaadiri wedding song, called ‘Waa Guuriheeynnaa,’ and Cristina Ali Farah’s published work A Dhow is Crossing the Sea. I interrogate what constitutes female kinship, coastal identity, cultural heritage, and the ties between these phenomena through a comparative analysis of the two forms of literature. I assess how both works express kinship between coastal wo…
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Kinship (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Identity (music (2 works) · Indian ocean (2 works)