Scholars of the African continent will find the most nuanced and detailed consideration of Swahili culture, language and history ever produced. The result is a book that allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to explore the diversity of the Swahili tradition, how Swahili society has changed over time, as well as how our understandings of the region have shifted since Swahili studies first began.
Each chapter offers a unique wealth of detail on an aspect of the region’s past, written by the leading scholars on the subject. This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective. Successive colonial regimes have helped shape modern Swahili society, which has incorporated such influences into the region’s long-standing cosmopolitan tradition. The towns have been Muslim since perhaps the eighth century CE, participating in international networks connecting people around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond. Swahili towns contain monumental palaces, tombs, and mosques, set among more humble houses they were home to fishers, farmers, traders, and specialists of many kinds. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found there today. The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. The Swahili World written by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Social Science categories. "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 The Swahili written by Derek Nurse and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories. Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press This wide-ranging volume integrates documentary sources and contemporary archaeological evidence to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Swahili history, anthropology, language and culture. The Swahili written by Mark Horton and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
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