Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean EastAfrica Rachel Balen Lured by a top academic

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Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean EastAfrica Rachel Balen Lured by a top academicAn investigation into the construction of ethnicity and other collective identities in communities along the Kenyan coast across two millennia. This volume explores how the people of littoral East Africa imagined and reimagined their communities over two millennia of engagement with Indian Ocean transformations from the settlement of Bantu speakers near the coast around the first century CE to their participation in transoceanic commerce, imperial