Daren Ray
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4170701 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daren Ray |
| PRENOMES | Daren |
| SOBRENOME | Ray |
| ASSINATURA | RAY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1877-363X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Daren Ray on Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa
In this interview, Daren Ray discusses his book, Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa, which was published in the Indian Ocean Studies Series of Ohio University Press at the end of 2023
Recycling Interdisciplinary Evidence
Scholars can elevate African voices as they recycle evidence from abandoned lines of research. This article discusses how to apply the confirmation and recycling methods of interdisciplinary research to engage with African historiologies. After reviewing contentious debates about Shungwaya from ca. 1955–2000, it draws on Mijikenda elder Thomas Govi’s descriptions of uganga and clanship (in a published collection of oral traditions) as a historiol…
Defining the Swahili
Defining the Swahili - 1
Celebrating Swahili New Year
Coastal East Africans began practicing Islam as early as the eighth century CE, yet debates over bid‘a (innovation) during the twentieth century recast several of their local practices as shirk (blasphemy). This article situates the celebration of Swahili New Year, now regarded by many East African Muslims as shirk , within the context of debates about maulidi, a celebration of the Prophet Muhammad's birth introduced by Arab immigrants. Drawing o…
From Constituting Communities to Dividing Districts
From Constituting Communities to Dividing Districts
The popular image of ignorant diplomats carving up blank maps of Africa into European colonies elides the extensive negotiations over space, power, and identity that played out in the towns and countrysides of Kenya until colonial rule ended in 1963. 1 In order to capture how Mombasa’ residents participated in cementing the division of their communities, this chapter combines ethnographic consultations that I conducted with local residents in 201…
Recycling Interdisciplinary Evidence
Scholars can elevate African voices as they recycle evidence from abandoned lines of research. This article discusses how to apply the confirmation and recycling methods of interdisciplinary research to engage with African historiologies. After reviewing contentious debates about Shungwaya from ca. 1955–2000, it draws on Mijikenda elder Thomas Govi’s descriptions of uganga and clanship (in a published collection of oral traditions) as a historiol…
From Constituting Communities to Dividing Districts
From Constituting Communities to Dividing Districts
The popular image of ignorant diplomats carving up blank maps of Africa into European colonies elides the extensive negotiations over space, power, and identity that played out in the towns and countrysides of Kenya until colonial rule ended in 1963. 1 In order to capture how Mombasa’ residents participated in cementing the division of their communities, this chapter combines ethnographic consultations that I conducted with local residents in 201…
Celebrating Swahili New Year
Coastal East Africans began practicing Islam as early as the eighth century CE, yet debates over bid‘a (innovation) during the twentieth century recast several of their local practices as shirk (blasphemy). This article situates the celebration of Swahili New Year, now regarded by many East African Muslims as shirk , within the context of debates about maulidi, a celebration of the Prophet Muhammad's birth introduced by Arab immigrants. Drawing o…
Defining the Swahili
Defining the Swahili - 1
Recycling Interdisciplinary Evidence
Scholars can elevate African voices as they recycle evidence from abandoned lines of research. This article discusses how to apply the confirmation and recycling methods of interdisciplinary research to engage with African historiologies. After reviewing contentious debates about Shungwaya from ca. 1955–2000, it draws on Mijikenda elder Thomas Govi’s descriptions of uganga and clanship (in a published collection of oral traditions) as a historiol…
Daren Ray on Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa
In this interview, Daren Ray discusses his book, Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa, which was published in the Indian Ocean Studies Series of Ohio University Press at the end of 2023
Geography (5 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 obras) · African history and culture studies (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · African history and culture analysis (3 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Archaeology (3 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras)