Author: Sandra Staudacher

Sandra Staudacher is a social anthropologist and lawyer (MA) assistant at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland. She is currently working on her PhD entitled title ‘Ageing, agency and health in urbanizing Zanzibar’, and spent one and a half years of ethnographic field study among mostly Swahili Muslims in Zanzibar (Tanzania) and Muscat (Oman).

Sandra Staudacher

The Edge of Islam

March, 2015 / By Sandra Staudacher

The Edge of Islam is an in-depth and nicely written ethnography about Giriama and Swahili ethnic groups and their identification […]