This volume
explores the way of life of the Boni community, a hunter-gatherer people that
straddle the Kenya/Somali border in East Africa. The Boni
converted to Islam some fifty years ago and the
reasons for this, both
internal and
external to the community, are identified. The book argues that former indigenous religious activity, far from having died out, is now being renegotiated so as to reflect an evolving Boni self-identity in a multi-ethnic setting as well as allowing the fermentation of resistance in the face of attempts at cultural hegemony advanced by outside forces. Employing a phenomenological approach and a methodology based on participant observation, this volume identifies three contrasting spheres of religious activity - the bush, the village centre, and individual homesteads..
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