Swahili - Reconstructing History Language of an African Society, 800 1500

Informationen zum Autor By Derek Nurse and Thomas Spear Klappentext "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-traditi Zusammenfassung "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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Maps Figures 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

Product details

• Authors: Derek Nurse, Derek Spear Nurse, Thomas Spear
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1985
• EAN: 9780812212075
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1207-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Ethnohistory Series; Ethnohistory S.; The Ethnohistory Series; Ethnohistory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology