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Author : Joseph Biddulph
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Native African Alphabets of Modern Times written by Joseph Biddulph and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saki Mafundikwa
Publisher : Mark Batty Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780977282760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Afrikan Alphabets written by Saki Mafundikwa and published by Mark Batty Publisher. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to popular demand for the first edition, Mark Batty Publisher proudly announces a reissue of this title in paperback. Because the book sets the record straight about how colonial powers suppressed the rich cultural and artistic histories of Afrikan alphabets, this title should appeal to individual readers as well as schools and universities. Both entertaining and anecdotal, Afrikan Alphabets presents a wealth of highly graphical, attractive and inspiring illustrations. Writing systems across the Afrikan continent and the Diaspora are analyzed and illustrated; syllabaries, paintings, pictographs, ideographs and symbols are compared and contrasted. This colourful, extensively illustrated and informative visual journey will be of interest to everyone seeking inspiration from, or more information about, Afrikan culture and art.
Author : Ayele Bekerie
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
ISBN 13 : 9781569020210
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Ethiopic, an African Writing System written by Ayele Bekerie and published by The Red Sea Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking book about the history and principles of Ethiopic (Ge'ez), an African writing system designed as a meaningful and graphic representation of a wide range of knowledge.
Author : Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
Publisher : UWC Press
ISBN 13 : 1990995098
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Gandhi’s African Legacy: Phoenix Settlement 1904 to 2024. A History Through Letters written by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie and published by UWC Press. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is an epic work which gives us another deep insight not just into the South African Gandhi but also into his colleagues at the settlement and an ongoing biography of the settlement itself. This is the first book telling the history of Phoenix Settlement from its founding to now. It provides us with a view into the lives of the residents and supporters, rather than merely a history of the buildings. This is a goldmine for researchers. It very skilfully presents the role of the settlement in the campaigns against apartheid in the early 1950s and the international recognition of its actions and the stimulus they provided for international campaigns. The story of the settlement as a haven for multi-racial gatherings in the time of apartheid, and, regardless of this, the disaster that followed is wonderfully told.” - Thomas Weber, Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne “Another magisterial book from Dhupelia-Mesthrie, this time on Phoenix, told through deeply researched contextual chapters and the letters of those who lived there. Informed by a lifetime’s work on Gandhi and drawing on archives and personal papers from across the world, this monumental work will be treasured by grateful scholars and readers for decades to come.” - Isabel Hofmeyr, Emeritus Professor, University of the Witwatersrand “The book provides a major, new, in-depth understanding of a major initiative in Gandhi’s life, an initiative which laid the ground for his work in South Africa and in India, and whose resonances are still being felt in the world.” - Ramachandra Guha, Eminent biographer of Gandhi
Author : R. Malatesha Joshi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031262506
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Literacy in Africa written by R. Malatesha Joshi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the shortcomings concerning literacy development in Africa and collates the current available literature based on empirical research in various countries in a coherent manner. Further emphasized is how the current research can guide practical information to improve the literacy situation in Africa. The research studies will encompass various fields such as linguistics, neurosciences, and education and will provide future research directions and instructional recommendations to improve the literacy situation in Africa.
Author : Tim Brookes
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1529408253
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)
Download or read book An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets written by Tim Brookes and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them. If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the world's writing systems are on the verge of vanishing - not granted official status, not taught in schools, discouraged and dismissed. When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script, everything it has written for hundreds of years - sacred texts, poems, personal correspondence, legal documents, the collective experience, wisdom and identity of a people - is lost. This Atlas is about those writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them. From the ancient holy alphabets of the Middle East, now used only by tiny sects, to newly created African alphabets designed to keep cultural traditions alive in the twenty-first century: from a Sudanese script based on the ownership marks traditionally branded into camels, to a secret system used in one corner of China exclusively by women to record the songs and stories of their inner selves: this unique book profiles dozens of scripts and the cultures they encapsulate, offering glimpses of worlds unknown to us - and ways of saving them from vanishing entirely.
Author : Thomas Maurice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Indian Antiquities Or Dissertations Relative to the Antient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce and the Various and Profound Literature of Hindostan Compared Throughout with the Religion, Laws, Government and Literature of Persia, Egypt and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to the History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale written by Thomas Maurice and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. J. Kotzé
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters of the American Missionaries, 1835-1838 written by D. J. Kotzé and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1950 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reeva S. Simon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231107969
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times written by Reeva S. Simon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling an important gap in the literature, this volume documents the variety and diversity of Jewish life in the Middle East and North Africa over the last two hundred years. It explains the changes that affected the communities under Islamic rule during its "golden age" and describes the processes of modernization that enabled the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa to play a pivotal role in their respective countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226122038
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Language written by David Crystal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's Dictionary of Language includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz to Zyryan) and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, but also explanations of terms used in linguistics, language teaching, and speech pathology. If you are wondering how many people speak Macedonian, Malay, or Makua, or if you're curious about various theories of the origins of language, or if you were always unsure of the difference between structuralism, semiotics, and sociolinguistics, this superbly authoritative dictionary will answer all of your questions and hundred of others.
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Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Missionary Tidings written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heinrich Vedder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 042965796X
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book South West Africa in Early Times written by Heinrich Vedder and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was originally published in 1966. This detailed study of the history of South West AFrica up to the date of Maharero's death in 1890 was originally published in German and appeared in an English version for the first time in 1938 when it was recognised as the first standard work on the subject. The author's extensive ethnological and linguistic studies made him especially well equipped to give a detailed account of the country and its people, and of the customs and languages of the different tribes. A considerable part of the book deals with the gradual colonization of the country by European pioneers whose various adventures are recorded in a mass of 'old notes, letters, reports and diaries'; and the historical side is supplemented by an ethological account of the native tribes. This is a scholarly work which, with its regard for folklore and tribal tradition as well as for the facts of history, must recommend itself to all lovers of South West Africa.
Author : Reeva Spector Simon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231507593
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times written by Reeva Spector Simon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite considerable research on the Jewish diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa since 1800, there has until now been no comprehensive synthesis that illuminates both the differences and commonalities in Jewish experience across a range of countries and cultures. This lacuna in both Jewish and Middle Eastern studies is due partly to the fact that in general histories of the region, Jews have been omitted from the standard narrative. As part of the religious and ethnic mosaic that was traditional Islamic society, Jews were but one among numerous minorities and so have lacked a systematic treatment. Addressing this important oversight, this volume documents the variety and diversity of Jewish life in the region over the last two hundred years. It explains the changes that affected the communities under Islamic rule during its "golden age" and describes the processes of modernization that enabled the Jews to play a pivotal role in their respective countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first half of the book is thematic, covering topics ranging from languages to economic life and from religion and music to the world of women. The second half is a country-by-country survey that covers Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, the Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
Author : Peter T. Daniels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195079930
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The World's Writing Systems written by Peter T. Daniels and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this unusually comprehensive reference offers a detailed exploration of the history and typology of writing systems. More than eighty articles by scholars from over a dozen countries explain and document how a vast array of writing systems work--how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs, and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form. The work is organized in thirteen parts, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationships within geographical areas, the scripts are divided into the following sections: the ancient Near East, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Additional parts address the ongoing process of decipherment of ancient writing systems; the adaptation of traditional scripts to new languages; new scripts invented in modern times; and graphic symbols for numerical, music, and movement notation. Each part begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was developed. Articles on individual scripts detail the historical origin of the writing system, its structure (with tables showing the forms of the written symbols), and its relationship to the phonology of the corresponding spoken language. Each writing system is illustrated by a passage of text, and accompanied by a romanized version, a phonetic transcription, and a modern English translation. A bibliography suggesting further reading concludes each entry. Matched by no other work in English, The World's Writing Systems is the only comprehensive resource covering every major writing system. Unparalleled in its scope and unique in its coverage of the way scripts relate to the languages they represent, this is a resource that anyone with an interest in language will want to own, and one that should be a part of every library's reference collection.
Author : Charles Tilstone BEKE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Letters on the Commerce of Abessinia and other parts of Eastern Africa, etc. With a map written by Charles Tilstone BEKE and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Shiras
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Life and Letters of Rev. James May, D.D. written by Alexander Shiras and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Letters & Journals of Lord Byron written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
