Author: Helena Jerman
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064080
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society No. 38 The research area of this study was once the focal point of colonial penetration in East Africa. The author traces the evolution of ethnicity from the 15th century until the post-colonial period. She argues that ethnic group identification is used as a self-referent. People's perception of the present is a reflection of the colonial practice of dividing people into tribes. Yet, villagers in the Bagamoyo District stress commonality -- another dimension of ethnic consciousness.
Between Five Lines
Author: Helena Jerman
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064080
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society No. 38 The research area of this study was once the focal point of colonial penetration in East Africa. The author traces the evolution of ethnicity from the 15th century until the post-colonial period. She argues that ethnic group identification is used as a self-referent. People's perception of the present is a reflection of the colonial practice of dividing people into tribes. Yet, villagers in the Bagamoyo District stress commonality -- another dimension of ethnic consciousness.
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064080
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Transactions of the Finnish Anthropological Society No. 38 The research area of this study was once the focal point of colonial penetration in East Africa. The author traces the evolution of ethnicity from the 15th century until the post-colonial period. She argues that ethnic group identification is used as a self-referent. People's perception of the present is a reflection of the colonial practice of dividing people into tribes. Yet, villagers in the Bagamoyo District stress commonality -- another dimension of ethnic consciousness.
Inland from Mombasa
Author: David P. Bresnahan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520400496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged transregional networks into a world of global connections. East Africa's crucial role in this Indian Ocean world has primarily been understood through the influence of coastal trading centers like Mombasa. In Inland from Mombasa, David P. Bresnahan looks anew at this Swahili port city from the vantage point of the communities that lived on its rural edges. By reconstructing the deep history of these Mijikenda-speaking societies over the past two millennia, he shows how profoundly they influenced global trade even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices that historians have claimed are critical to creating global connections, choosing smaller communities over urbanism, local ritual practices over Islam, and inland trade over maritime commerce. Inland from Mombasa makes the compelling case that the seemingly isolating alternative social pursuits engaged in by Mijikenda speakers were in fact key to their active role in global commerce and politics.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520400496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged transregional networks into a world of global connections. East Africa's crucial role in this Indian Ocean world has primarily been understood through the influence of coastal trading centers like Mombasa. In Inland from Mombasa, David P. Bresnahan looks anew at this Swahili port city from the vantage point of the communities that lived on its rural edges. By reconstructing the deep history of these Mijikenda-speaking societies over the past two millennia, he shows how profoundly they influenced global trade even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices that historians have claimed are critical to creating global connections, choosing smaller communities over urbanism, local ritual practices over Islam, and inland trade over maritime commerce. Inland from Mombasa makes the compelling case that the seemingly isolating alternative social pursuits engaged in by Mijikenda speakers were in fact key to their active role in global commerce and politics.
Societies, Religion, and History
Author: Rhonda M. Gonzales
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Scholars often equate a Swahili presence with the moment history began on the Tanzanian central coast. In this book, Rhonda M. Gonzales proposes an altogether different and more comprehensive narrative. Societies, Religion, and History is the first study to apply historical linguistic methods to the Bantu-speaking peoples of the coastal and interior regions of central east Tanzania, individuals and communities who later became part of the Swahili world. The Seuta and Ruvu Bantu societies were entrenched along the coast and interior of Tanzania for centuries before Swahili-speaking populations expanded their towns and settlements southward along the East African coastline. Making use of historical linguistics, the findings of cutting-edge archaeologists, ethnographic sources, and her own extensive field research, Gonzales unfolds a historical panorama of thriving societies engaged in vibrant cross-cultural exchange and prosperous regional and transoceanic networks. According to Gonzales, scholars need to integrate these communities into their stories if they are to compose a full and satisfying history of central eastern Tanzania. Recovering this history requires close attention to the happenings of the interior, often misleadingly referred to--and treated--as hinterland. Toward that end, Gonzales combines a challenging range of historical resources to build a long-term history of the social, cultural, and religious beliefs and practices of the region as they have developed over the past 2,000 years.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Scholars often equate a Swahili presence with the moment history began on the Tanzanian central coast. In this book, Rhonda M. Gonzales proposes an altogether different and more comprehensive narrative. Societies, Religion, and History is the first study to apply historical linguistic methods to the Bantu-speaking peoples of the coastal and interior regions of central east Tanzania, individuals and communities who later became part of the Swahili world. The Seuta and Ruvu Bantu societies were entrenched along the coast and interior of Tanzania for centuries before Swahili-speaking populations expanded their towns and settlements southward along the East African coastline. Making use of historical linguistics, the findings of cutting-edge archaeologists, ethnographic sources, and her own extensive field research, Gonzales unfolds a historical panorama of thriving societies engaged in vibrant cross-cultural exchange and prosperous regional and transoceanic networks. According to Gonzales, scholars need to integrate these communities into their stories if they are to compose a full and satisfying history of central eastern Tanzania. Recovering this history requires close attention to the happenings of the interior, often misleadingly referred to--and treated--as hinterland. Toward that end, Gonzales combines a challenging range of historical resources to build a long-term history of the social, cultural, and religious beliefs and practices of the region as they have developed over the past 2,000 years.
Women in Tanzania
Author: Ophelia Mascarenhas
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Human Settlements in Tanzania
Author: Carolyn Hannan-Andersson
Publisher:
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Category : Households
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Households
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Archaeological "objectivity" in Interpretation
Author:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Women's Question and the Modes of Human Reproduction
Author: Ulla Vuorela
Publisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Women and Development in Tanzania
Author: Ophelia Mascarenhas
Publisher:
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Category : Tanzania
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Tanzania
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research
Author: International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Selected Library Acquisitions
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description