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"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
Price: $29.95
Pages: 160
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date:
01 January 1985
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780812212075
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, African history, HISTORY / Africa / General
"The authors, respectively a linguist specializing in Swahili and related Bantu languages and a historian specializing in the history of East Africa, have assembled an impressive array of evidence-linguistic, archaeological, documentary, and oral-traditional-in support of the argument that Swahili culture, often regarded as an Arabian transplant on the East African coast, is actually 'a dynamic synthesis of African and Arabian ideas within an African historical and cultural context.'"
Derek Nurse is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Thomas Spear is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Swahili and Their History
2 The African Background of Swahili
3 The Emergence of the Swahili-Speaking Peoples
4 Early Swahili Society, 800-1100
5 Rise of the Swahili Town-States, 1100-1500
Appendices
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index