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Author : William Ernest Taylor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Giryama Vocabulary and Collections written by William Ernest Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253343093
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)
Download or read book African Divination Systems written by Philip M. Peek and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further research." -- Journal of Ritual Studies "The essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study." -- Choice This unique collection of essays by an exceptional international group of Africanists demonstrates the central role that divination continues to play throughout Africa in maintaining cultural systems and in guiding human action. African Divination Systems offers insights for current discussions in comparative epistemology, cross-cultural psychology, cognition studies, semiotics, ethnoscience, religious studies, and anthropology.
Author : Ida Raffaelli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262128
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Lexicalization patterns in color naming written by Ida Raffaelli and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic devices languages use to form color terms. The aim of this volume is to approach color data from a relativist and typological perspective and to address some novel viewpoints in the research of color terms, such as: (a) the focus on language structure per se in the study of lexicalization data; (b) investigation of inter- and intra-language structural variation; (c) culture and language contact as reflected in language structure. Topics of this book have a broad appeal to researchers working in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology.
Author : Johann Ludwig Krapf
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Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Swahili-English Dictionary written by Johann Ludwig Krapf and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin K. Hendrix
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810814783
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book An International Bibliography of African Lexicons written by Melvin K. Hendrix and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.
Author : Cynthia Brantley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520414543
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Giriama and Colonial Resistance in Kenya, 1800–1920 written by Cynthia Brantley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Giriama of Kenya's coastal hinterland persistently resisted colonialism, and they were unreceptive both to Christianity and to Islam. In 1912 the British colonial authorities earmarked the Giriama as a key source of labor for the plantations Europeans were trying to develop along the coast. The Giriama, prosperous producers and traders, could not become wage laborers and maintain their successful economy, and the British demands upon this scattered people therefore were spontaneously rejected. Increased pressure increased Giriama recalcitrance. Finally, military action brought defeat to the Giriama, whose only weapons were bows and arrows and whose decentralization prevented coordinated resistance. They lost their best lands, paid a heavy fine, and had to contribute a thousand laborers to the Carrier Corps. But the British costs were also heavy. The coastal plantations failed, few Giriama ever became wage laborers, and the entire area became depressed economically. Cynthia Brantley explores the precolonial Giriama's political and economic system and their dynamic trade relationship with the coast of Kenya in an effort to explain why the Giriama were so determined in their resistance to British pressure. She shows that even when the political and social structures of a people seem weak, it is unlikely that the population will submit to changes that undermine the economy. Moreover, their very lack of a centralized political or religious organization made the imposition of foreign administration extremely difficult. The British won the war, but their victory was hollow. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author : Bernd Heine
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya written by Bernd Heine and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bailey's Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars in the Languages of the Orient, Africa, the Americas, & Oceania written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David P. Bresnahan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520400488
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Inland from Mombasa written by David P. Bresnahan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-12-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Beverle Michaele Lax
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Verbal System of KiGiryama written by Beverle Michaele Lax and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanna Overing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135800472
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Reason and Morality written by Joanna Overing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1985. What is the place of reason and conversely of the unreasonable, the contradictory, the emotional and the chaotic in social life? What is the nature of general human rationality? Are there such things as incommensurable world views? How efficacious are typologies or 'modes of thought' or cognitive styles? These are some of the controversies addressed by the contributors to this volume which draws together papers from the 1984 Malinowski Centennial Conference of the ASA.
Author : Aimee Johansen Alnet
Publisher : Shimaore.net
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Clause Structure Of The Shimaore Dialect Of Comorian (Bantu) written by Aimee Johansen Alnet and published by Shimaore.net. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the clause structure of the Shimaore dialect of Comorian, an under-described Bantu language spoken on the island of Mayotte. One important contribution of the dissertation is a description of Shimaore that includes data of interest to linguists that have never been described for Shimaore.
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Publisher : Shimaore.net
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Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book The Clause Structure of the Shimaore Dialect of Comorian (Bantu) written by and published by Shimaore.net. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilfred Howell Whiteley
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Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book Language in Kenya ... written by Wilfred Howell Whiteley and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in the series is the result of research by an interdisciplinary team of international scholars, all with a particular interest in Kenya. The first part of the book contains a comprehensive classification of Kenyan languages, looks at their distribution, and studies some special language situations. The second part is concerned with language use, including the special status of Swahili, and discusses both the effects of urbanization and education, and patterns of bilingualism. The third part analyses the organization of language teaching and teacher training in Kenya.
Author : East African Literature Bureau
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Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Complete Catalogue written by East African Literature Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Parkin
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1800411499
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making written by David Parkin and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in East Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking. The volume makes the argument that language and other forms of communication involve semiotic transactions between interlocuters; that such communicative exchanges do more than convey information; and that they give identity to the recipients of such transactions who reciprocate by defining speakers. The density and situational totality of such semiotic exchange can moreover be regarded as a kind of materiality, both in terms of their impact on social interaction and in how interlocuters interact bodily as well as verbally among themselves.
Author : Derek Nurse
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512821667
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Swahili written by Derek Nurse and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
