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Periodical article Periodical article
Title:Relating Muscat to Mombasa: Spatial tropes in the kinship narratives of an extended family network in Oman
Author:Hirji, Z.
Year:2007
Periodical:Anthropology of the Middle East
Volume:2
Issue:1
Pages:55-69
Geographic term:Kenya
Discipline:Anthropology & Ethnology
Subjects:Social Organisation
Mombasa
Oman
Swahili - society
Abstract:This study calls for a reintegration of space and relatedness in anthropological theories of social formation. It is based on the examination of spatial tropes in the kinship narratives and discursive practices of an extended Swahili-speaking family network historically located between Oman and coastal East Africa. (Source: Author Abstract).
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