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The Swahili World: Routledge Worlds

Editat de Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Adria LaViolette
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2020
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. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found there today. 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. The towns have been Muslim since perhaps the eighth century CE, participating in international networks connecting people around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond. Successive colonial regimes have helped shape modern Swahili society, which has incorporated such influences into the region’s long-standing cosmopolitan tradition.




This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective. Each chapter offers a unique wealth of detail on an aspect of the region’s past, written by the leading scholars on the subject. 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.




Scholars of the African continent will find the most nuanced and detailed consideration of Swahili culture, language and history ever produced. For readers unfamiliar with the region or the people involved, the chapters here provide an ideal introduction to a new and wonderful geography, at the interface of Africa and the Indian Ocean world, and among a people whose culture remains one of Africa’s most distinctive achievements.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367660000
ISBN-10: 0367660008
Pagini: 702
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 50 mm
Greutate: 1.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Worlds

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic and Postgraduate

Cuprins

List of Figures




List of Tables




Maps




Preface




Note on Terminology




Contributors


1. The Swahili world


Section I: Environment, background, and Swahili historiography


2. The eastern African coastal landscape


3. Resources of the ocean fringe and the archaeology of the medieval Swahili


4. The eastern African coast: researching its history and archaeology


5. Defining the Swahili


6. Decoding Swahili genetic ancestry


7. Early connections


8. The Swahili language and its early history


9. Swahili origins


10. Swahili oral traditions and chronicles


11. Manda


12. Tumbe, Kimimba and Bandari Kuu


13. Unguja Ukuu


14. Chibuene


15. Urbanism


16. Town and village


17. Mambrui and Malindi


18. Shanga


19. Gede


20. Mtwapa


21. Pemba


22. Zanzibar


23. Mafia


24. Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara


25. Mikindani and the southern coast


26. The Comoros and their early history


27. The Comoros 1000 - 1350 CE


28. Mahilaka


29. The social composition of Swahili society


30. Metalworking on Swahili sites


31. Craft and industry


32. Animals in the Swahili world


33. Plant use and the creation of anthropogenic landscapes: coastal forestry and farming


34. The progressive integration of eastern Africa into an Afro-Eurasian world-system, first-fifteenth centuries CE


35. Eastern Africa and the dhow trade


36. Early inland entanglement in the Swahili world, c. 750-1550 CE


37. Mosaics and interconnectivity


38. Links with India


39.Links with China


40. Currencies of the Swahili world


41. Glass beads and Indian Ocean trade


42. Quantitative evidence for early long-distance exchange in eastern Africa: the consumption volume of ceramic imports


43. Islamic architecture of the Swahili coast


44. Swahili houses


45. Navigating the early modern world: Swahili polities and the continental-oceanic interface


46. Zanzibar old town


47. The Kilwa – Nyasa caravan route: the long-neglected trading corridor in southern Tanzania


48. Islam in the Swahili world: Connected authorities


49. The legacy of slavery on the Swahili coast


50. Life in Swahili villages


51. The modern life of Swahili stonetowns


52. Identity and belonging on the contemporary Swahili coast: the case of Lamu


53. Pate


54. Mombasa


55. The Swahili house: a historical ethnography of modernity


56. The future of Swahili monuments

Notă biografică

Adria LaViolette is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Virginia. Her interest in the Swahili coast began in 1987 while teaching at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Since then she has conducted archaeological research on the Tanzanian mainland coast and on Pemba and Zanzibar islands. She has been Editor-in-Chief of African Archaeological Review since 2009.




Stephanie Wynne-Jones is currently Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, affiliated with Uppsala University. She has been Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of York since 2011 and is a core group member of the Centre for Network Evolutions at Aarhus University (DNRF119). She has conducted archaeological research on the Swahili coast since 2000, in Kenya, Tanzania, and on the Zanzibar archipelago.

Recenzii

“This edited volume provides a compilation of research carried out on the Swahili coast and its archaeological sites”
Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan Centre, UK, Antiquity Publications
 
"This book is a great resource for those working along the Swahili coast and interior areas with similar archaeological deposits. Indeed, I finished reading the book with a better understanding of the history, archaeology, linguistics, and anthropology of the Swahili coast. From these perspectives, the authors have explored the Swahili coast’s history from what they consider to be the earliest settlements to the remains of complex monumental structures found there today. This unique wealth of the detail on past of the Swahili coast is the true strength of the book that Wynne-jones and LaViolette produced for us."
Elgidius B. Ichumbaki, African Archeological Review
 

Descriere

The Swahili World explores aspects of the archaeology, history, linguistics and anthropology of the eastern African coast. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, during which time the coast was initially settled, towns developed, people converted to Islam, and successive colonial regimes preceded the current nation states which make u