The Rise And Fall Of Swahili States
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Author |
: Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba |
Publisher |
: Altamira Press |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015050287617 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Swahili States by : Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba
The Swahili civilization was a fascinating and complex system_a group of advanced cultures with large economic networks, international maritime trade, and urban sophistication. This book documents the growth of Swahili civilization on the eastern coast of Africa, from 100 B.C. to the time of European colonialism in the sixteenth century. Using archaeological, anthropological, and historical information, Chapurukha M. Kusimba describes the origins of this unique and powerful culture, including its Islamic components, architecture, language, and trading systems. Incorporating the results of his own surveys and excavations, Kusimba provides us with a remarkable African-derived study of the rise and collapse of societies on the Swahili Coast.
Author |
: Chege J. Githiora |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847012074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847012078 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sheng by : Chege J. Githiora
Of interest to linguists, artists, ma-youth, scholars of urban studies, educationalists, policy makers and language planners who are grappling with the challenges of multilingualism and language of education in Kenya.
Author |
: John Middleton |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 554 |
Release |
: 1992-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300060807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300060805 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World of the Swahili by : John Middleton
The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. This book presents an anthropological account of the Swahili and offers an original analysis of their little-understood and unusual culture.
Author |
: Alamin M. Mazrui |
Publisher |
: Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015017433494 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Swahili by : Alamin M. Mazrui
An indepth look at Swahili culture, language and the people
Author |
: Innocent Pikirayi |
Publisher |
: Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0759100918 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780759100916 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Zimbabwe Culture by : Innocent Pikirayi
Since the monumental architecture of the Zimbabwe Plateau first became known to Westerners in the 16th century, speculation about the people that created it has been continuous and inventive. Tales of strongholds in the interior were taken home by the first Portuguese chroniclers of the Swahili coast, and their narratives became part of the geographic lore of the 17th and 18th centuries. In the mid-19th century, the lore was spun into fantastic and mysterious yarns about long-lost riches that lured adventurers and traders. Pikirayi (history, U. of Zimbabwe) aims to set the record straight by examining the growth of precolonial states on the plateau and adjacent regions, with a focus on the their historical and cultural development during the second millennium AD. c. Book News Inc.
Author |
: Iain Walker |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2018-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315280837 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315280833 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Issues in Swahili Ethnography by : Iain Walker
The term ‘Swahili’ describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically filled roles as middlemen and merchants, the cosmopolitan products of a trading economy between Africa and the Indian Ocean world. This collection brings together anthropologists working on the greater Swahili world and the issues it confronts, dealing with societies from southern Somalia, northern Mozambique and the Comoro Islands, to Zanzibar and Mafia. The authors discuss a range of contemporary issues such as the shifting roles of Islam on the mainland coast; consumerism, conservation, memory and belonging in Zanzibar; how a Muslim society deals with HIV/AIDS; social change, development and political strategies in the Comoros; and Swahili women in London. The diversity of these themes reflects the diversity of the Swahili world itself: despite a cohesive cultural identity built upon shared practices, religious beliefs and language, the challenges facing Swahili people are multiple and complex. This book comprises articles originally published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies along with some new chapters.
Author |
: Thomas H. Wilson |
Publisher |
: Franklin Watts |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 053120281X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780531202814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis City-States of the Swahili Coast by : Thomas H. Wilson
Discusses the history and culture of the Swahili peoples living along the eastern coast of Africa, from present-day Somalia to Mozambique.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2018-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004363397 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004363394 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity by :
This book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.
Author |
: Philippe Beaujard |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 946 |
Release |
: 2019-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1108424562 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108424561 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Worlds of the Indian Ocean by : Philippe Beaujard
Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plates, and figures, he shows how Asia and Africa dominated the economic and cultural landscape and the flow of ideas in the pre-modern world. This led to a trans-regional division of labor and an Afro-Eurasian world economy. Beaujard questions the origins of capitalism and hints at how this world-system may evolve in the future. The result is a reorienting of world history, taking the Indian Ocean, rather than Europe, as the point of departure. Volume I provides in-depth coverage of the period from the fourth millennium BCE to the sixth century CE.
Author |
: Derek Nurse |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 081221207X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780812212075 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Swahili by : Derek Nurse
"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."—International Journal of African Historical Studies