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Title:Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam and intellectual practice on the Swahili coast
Author:Kresse, K.
Year:2007
City of publisher:Edinburgh
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Geographic term:Kenya
Discipline:Anthropology & Ethnology
Subjects:Islam
Mombasa
Swahili - culture
Knowledge - indigenous
Abstract:Philosophising in Mombasa provides an approach to the anthropological study of philosophical discourses in the Swahili context of Mombasa, Kenya. In this historically established Muslim environment, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, philosophy is investigated as social discourse and intellectual practice, situated in everyday life. This is done from the perspective of an 'anthropology of philosophy', a project which is spelled out in the opening chapter. (Source: Cover Text).
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