Swahili Expressive Arts is a collection of images that represent the research and scholarship of Professor Rebecca Gearhart, Ph.D., Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois Wesleyan University. Professor Gearhart has worked with members of the community of Lamu, Kenya for twenty years and for this collection she has selected images that represent aspects of Swahili ceremonial life on the northern coast of Kenya. The Swahili Expressive Arts collection may be used as a reference for student and scholar research on some of the Sufi-inspired practices that contemporary Swahili communities in the Lamu archipelago and adjacent mainland carry on into the present.
Copyright held by Professor Rebecca Gearhart at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information or permissions for use, please contact Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian, at sdaviska@iwu.edu.
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