Author: Nathalie Arnold Koenings

Nathalie Arnold Koenings is an ethnographer focused on Pemba, Zanzibar. Her work has engaged oral history, the imaginal, and cultural geography. She is also a translator of Swahili literature, and a fiction writer. Since 2003, she has taught writing, literature, and anthropology at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. This article is related to her current book project, a diachronic ethnography of the imaginal realms of Pemba.

Nathalie Arnold Koenings

Heritage out of Control: Jinns Matter

January, 2022 / By Nathalie Arnold Koenings

Contested mystical heritage in Pemba, Zanzibar On the island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania, jinns play a key […]