Relating Muscat to Mombasa: Spatial Tropes in the Kinship Narratives of an Extended Family Network in Oman

Abstract

This study calls for a reintegration of space and relatedness in anthropological theories of social formation. It is based on the examination of spatial tropes in the kinship narratives and discursive practices of an extended Swahili-speaking family network historically located between Oman and coastal East Africa.