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Book Synopsis East African Cowry Shells by : Shaun Metcalfe
Download or read book East African Cowry Shells written by Shaun Metcalfe and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Cowries of East Africa, by Tim O'Hare and Shaun Metcalfe, is intended to be a field guide. The book details over 70 species and subspecies of cowry shells found on the East African coastlines of Kenya and Tanzania and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. The book also covers common cowry relatives found in the area. Each species of cowry shell is accompanied by comprehensive colour photographs to make identification easy. It has also been possible to include some photographs of live cowry shells. The book, fully researched and up to date, is a work in progress, especially as more photographs of live shells are obtained. Shaun and Tim were brought up on the coast of Kenya where their interest in coral reefs began.
Book Synopsis The Shell Money of the Slave Trade by : Jan Hogendorn
Download or read book The Shell Money of the Slave Trade written by Jan Hogendorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade.
Book Synopsis Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money by : Bin Yang
Download or read book Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money written by Bin Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to various parts of Afro-Eurasia in the prehistoric era, and in many cases, it was gradually transformed into a form of money in various societies for a long span of time. Yang provides a global examination of cowrie money within and beyond Afro-Eurasia from the archaeological period to the early twentieth century. By focusing on cowrie money in Indian, Chinese, Southeast Asian and West African societies and shell money in Pacific and North American societies, Yang synthsises and illustrates the economic and cultural connections, networks and interactions over a longue durée and in a cross-regional context. Analysing locally varied experiences of cowrie money from a global perspective, Yang argued that cowrie money was the first global money that shaped Afro-Eurasian societies both individually and collectively. He proposes a paradigm of the cowrie money world that engages local, regional, transregional and global themes.
Book Synopsis Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum by : East Africa Natural History Society
Download or read book Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum written by East Africa Natural History Society and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twenty-five Years in East Africa by : John Roscoe
Download or read book Twenty-five Years in East Africa written by John Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African Cowrie Shells Divination by : Zolrak
Download or read book African Cowrie Shells Divination written by Zolrak and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Cowrie Shells and Learn How to Read the Messages of Ifá and the Higher Spiritual Planes Divination with cowrie shells is one of the oldest known spiritual practices in the world. Originated by the Yoruba people of West Africa, cowrie shell divination is a powerful technique for connecting to the wisdom of ancestors, spirits, and deities. This book shares the history of cowrie shell divination and shows you how to open the portals of spiritual communication with the shells and related divination systems, such as cola nuts and coconuts. Written by a long-time practitioner, African Cowrie Shells Divination provides the meaning of the sixteen shell combinations as well as tips and variations for readings based on the specific question being asked. Discover the powerful messages of the Orishas and the mystical divination techniques of Candomblé, Santería, and other traditions of the African diaspora. Explore the instructive stories known as patakkís and apply their guidance to your life. The cowrie shells are sacred magical tools. With the history, theories, and hands-on instructions in this guide, you will learn how the shells can be used to answer your most important questions and achieve your true destiny.
Download or read book Cowry shells written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum by :
Download or read book Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Living Seashells of the Tropical Indo-Pacific by : Andrey Ryanskiy
Download or read book Living Seashells of the Tropical Indo-Pacific written by Andrey Ryanskiy and published by Andrey Ryanskiy. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seashell or sea shells are the hard exoskeleton of mollusks such as snails, clams, chitons. For most people, acquaintance with mollusks began with empty shells. These shells often delight the eye with a variety of shapes and colors. Conchology studies the mollusk shells and this science dates back to the 17th century. However, modern science - malacology is the study of mollusks as whole organisms. Today more and more people are interacting with the ocean - divers, snorkelers, beachgoers - all of them often find in the seas not empty shells but live mollusks - living shells, whose appearance is significantly different from museum specimens. This book serves as a tool for identifying such animals. The book covers the region from the Red Sea to Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, and Guam. Inside the book: • Photographs of 1500+ species, including one hundred cowries (Cypraeidae) and more than one hundred twenty allied cowries (Ovulidae) of the region; • Live photo of hundreds of species have never before appeared in field guides or popular books; • 2600 full-color images; • Convenient pictorial guide at the beginning and index at the end of the book. It is designed for divers, underwater photographers, snorkelers, shell collectors, beachcombers, and nature lovers. Photographs, showing color variations are included. The validity of species names was checked with the help of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS).
Download or read book African Islands written by Toyin Falola and published by Rochester Studies in African H. This book was released on 2019 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast
Book Synopsis The Swahili Coast by : Christine Nicholls
Download or read book The Swahili Coast written by Christine Nicholls and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, The Swahili Coast deals with a sixty-year period in which Arabs from Oman in Arabia extended their influence over the East African coast from Mogadishu in the north to Cape Delgado in the South. This region had a culture and a way of life quite distinct from that of the interior and had always been an area of great maritime activity. For hundreds of years, Arabs had come down on the monsoon winds to trade there, and for two centuries, the Portuguese had controlled the region. In the course of the period covered by this book the ruler of the Omani Arabs transferred his seat of government from Arabia to Zanzibar. This involved him in delicate relationships with the Western powers who developed strategic and commercial interests in the area, and in conflicts with the local inhabitants of the East African littoral. Based on many original and hitherto unpublished materials, this book illuminates the reasons for this extension of Arab influence in the western part of the Indian Ocean, and shows the growing involvement of Western powers with the politics of the Sultanate of Zanzibar. Attention is also focused on the development of trade on the Swahili coast, as well as the reaction of the local populace to Arab and Western pressures. This study will be particularly useful for advanced students of African history, African Studies and anyone interested in political, social, and economic development of East Africa.
Book Synopsis Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society by : East Africa Natural History Society
Download or read book Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society written by East Africa Natural History Society and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The power of walls. Fortifications in ancient Northeastern Africa by : Friederike Jesse
Download or read book The power of walls. Fortifications in ancient Northeastern Africa written by Friederike Jesse and published by University of Cologne. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Consuming Ivory by : Alexandra Celia Kelly
Download or read book Consuming Ivory written by Alexandra Celia Kelly and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs, and other items made of ivory imported from East Africa. Yet while towns like Ivoryton and Deep River, Connecticut, thrived, the African ivory trade left in its wake massive human exploitation and ecological devastation. At the same time, dynamic East African engagement with capitalism and imperialism took place within these trade histories. Drawing from extensive archival and field research in New England, Great Britain, and Tanzania, Alexandra Kelly investigates the complex global legacies of the historical ivory trade. She not only explains the complexities of this trade but also analyzes Anglo-American narratives about Africa, questioning why elephants and ivory feature so centrally in those representations. From elephant conservation efforts to the cultural heritage industries in New England and East Africa, her study reveals the ongoing global repercussions of the ivory craze and will be of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and conservationists.
Book Synopsis The Prehistory of Food by : Chris Gosden
Download or read book The Prehistory of Food written by Chris Gosden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prehistory of Food sets subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with a scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change, and includes a wide range of case studies.
Download or read book Global Backlash written by Robin Broad and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-03-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Backlash is the first book to move beyond the monolithic portrayal of the globalization protests that have escalated since Seattle and are not likely to abate soon. With trenchant analysis and dozens of primary documents from a variety of popular and uncommon sources, Robin Broad explores proposals and initiatives coming from the backlash to answer the question, 'But what do they want?' A range of sophisticated propositions and a vibrant debate among segments of the backlash emerge. Highly readable and analytically powerful, this book is vital to understanding the most potent protest movement of our times.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present by : Cynthia Clark Northrup
Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present written by Cynthia Clark Northrup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 1307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic
