Morality at the Margins

Sarah Hillewaert

Description

This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on Kenya's island of Lamu, who live simultaneously on the edge and in the center. At the margins of the national and international economy and of Western notions of modernity, Lamu's inhabitants nevertheless find themselves the focus of campaigns against Islamic radicalization and of Western touristic imaginations of the untouched and secluded. What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim here? How are these denominators imagined and enacted in daily encounters? Documenting the everyday lives of Lamu youth, this ethnography explores how young people negotiate cultural, religious, political, and economic expectations through nuanced deployments of language, dress, and bodily comportment. Hillewaert shows how seemingly mundane practices-how young people greet others, how they walk, dress, and talk-can become tactics in the negotiation of moral personhood.Morality at the Margins traces the shifting meanings and potential ambiguities of such everyday signs-and the dangers of their misconstrual. By examining the uncertainties that underwrite projects of self-fashioning, the book highlights how shifting and scalable discourses of tradition, modernity, secularization, nationalism, and religious piety inform changing notions of moral subjectivity. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows the ways in which Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• East Africa
• Sociolinguistics
• History of Africa

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 05 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780823286539
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 33 Mo

Extrait

M o r a l I t y a t t h e M a r g I n s

Môàî à é Màîŝ Youth, anguage, and ïslam In Coastal Kenya

Sarah HIllewaert

f o r d h a m u n I v e r s I t y p r e s s New York 22

Côî © 2020 Fôà Uîéŝî éŝŝ

A îŝ éŝéé. Nô à ô îŝ ûbîçàîô à bé éôûçé, ŝôé î à éîéà ŝŝé, ô àŝîé î à ô ô b à éàŝ—ééçôîç, éçàîçà, ôôçô, éçôî, ô à ôé—éxçé ô bîé qûôàîôŝ î îé éîéŝ, îôû é îô éîŝŝîô ô é ûbîŝé.

Fôà Uîéŝî éŝŝ àŝ ô éŝôŝîbîî ô é éŝîŝéçé ô àççûàç ô URŝ ô éxéà ô î-à ïéé ébŝîéŝ ééé ô î îŝ ûbîçàîô à ôéŝ ô ûààéé à à çôé ô ŝûç ébŝîéŝ îŝ, ô î éàî, àççûàé ô àôîàé.

Fôà Uîéŝî éŝŝ àŝô ûbîŝéŝ îŝ bôôkŝ î à àîé ô ééçôîç ôàŝ. Sôé çôé à àéàŝ î î à ô bé ààîàbé î ééçôîç bôôkŝ.

Vîŝî ûŝ ôîé à .ôàéŝŝ.çô.

îbà ô Côéŝŝ Cààôî-î-ûbîçàîô Dàà

Nàéŝ: Hîéàé, Sàà, àûô. Tîé: Môàî à é àîŝ : ôû, àûàé, à ïŝà î çôàŝà Kéà / Sàà Hîéàé. Déŝçîîô: Né Yôk : Fôà Uîéŝî éŝŝ, 2020. | ïçûéŝ bîbîôàîçà éééçéŝ à îéx. ïéîiéŝ: CCN 2019028489 | ïSBN 9780823286515 (àbàçk) | ïSBN 9780823286508 (àébàçk) | ïSBN 9780823286522 (éûb) Sûbjéçŝ: CSH: Mûŝî ôû—Kéà—àû ïŝà—Sôçîà çôîîôŝ—21ŝ çéû. | Sôçîà çàé—Kéà—àû ïŝà. | Sàîî àûàé— Kéà—àû ïŝà. | Nôébà çôûîçàîô— Kéà—àû ïŝà. | àû ïŝà (Kéà)— Sôçîà çôîîôŝ—20 çéû. Càŝŝîiçàîô: CC HQ799.8.K42 36 2020 | DDC 305.386970967623—ç23 C éçô ààîàbé à ŝ://çç.ôç.ô/2019028489

îé î é Uîé Sàéŝ ô Aéîçà 22 21 20 5 4 3 2 1 Fîŝ éîîô

To the people of Lamu

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ïôûçîô ïéûé 1:Mîla Yetu Hufujîka(Oû Tàîîôŝ Aé Béî Déŝôé), b Màôû Aé Abûkàî “Tîŝ ïŝ àû”: Béôî, Môàî, à Màéîàî Dîàéçŝ ô Môàî ïéûé 2:kîSwahîlî, b Màôû Aé Abûkàî “Yôû” àŝ à Dîŝçûŝîé Côŝûç Réàî Môàî ôû Yôûû Vôîçéŝ ïéûé 3:Tupîjenî Makamama(é’ŝ Ebàçé), b Màôû Aé Abûkàî Séŝéŝ ô Môàî à Môàî ô é Séŝéŝ Eîôûé

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