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Zusatztext " In highlighting the multiple identities of Hadrami communities in the diaspora and the degree of their adaptability in host countries! Manger produces rich historical and ethnographic accounts that address their situations in Singapore! Hyderabad! Sudan! and Ethiopia through the colonial! postcolonial! nation-state formation! and globalization periods. " · American Anthropologist " While the book's focus is largely historical?! the analyses of Hadrami identity! social order! and religious change are first-rate ." · Choice " ?the text is well written and readable and this book will be a useful text for migration studies scholars! dealing as it does with a multicentred diaspora - or perhaps 'diasporas!' since the author suggests that Hadramis constitute a collection of diasporic communities with little in common but a point of departure. The text's wide focus will be of particular value to readers who are not familiar with the societies in question. " · Anthropos "A fascinating subject! based on extensive fieldwork and excellent case studies of diaspora communities." · Christopher Davidson ! Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies! Durham! UK Informationen zum Autor Leif Manger is a Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. His recent publications include, Diasporas Within and Without Africa: Dynamism, Hetereogeneity, Variation (co-edited with Munzoul A.M. Assal, Uppsala 2006). He has published works on trade, communal labor, and socio-cultural processes of Arabization and Islamization. Klappentext In-depth assessment of Hadrami identity, social order and religious change Provides detailed analysis of Hadrami communities both within and outside Yemen Highlights the complexity of the diasporic process Describes links betwen Hadrami migrants from Yemen and from the Indian Ocean regions Zusammenfassung The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region are an intriguing facet of the history of this region's migratory patterns. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Introducing the issues Part One: Diasporic communites within empires and nation states Chapter One: Singapore: Making Muslim space in a global city Chapter Two: Hyderabad: From winners to losers Chapter Three: Hadramis in Sudan: a Red Sea tale Chapter Four: Ethiopia: the problem of being "Arab", "Somali", "Capitalist" and "Terrorist" Part Two: Identities in the making Chapter Five: Maintaining a Hadrami identity in the diaspora Chapter Six: Homeland-diaspora dynamics: problematizing diasporic consciousness among Sada and non-Sada groups Chapter Seven: Resisting the West: Muslim universalism versus Western globalization in the Indian Ocean Bibliography ...
