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| Title: | Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean: Swahili Speaking Networks on the Move |
| Editor: | Declich, Francesca |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Issue: | 37 |
| Pages: | 322 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African Social Studies Series (ISSN 1568-1203) |
| City of publisher: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISBN: | 9789004365988 |
| Geographic terms: | East Africa Indian Ocean |
| Subjects: | Swahili language social networks |
| Abstract: | The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude. |
