Moving Histories
Bantu Language Expansions, Eclectic Economies, and Mobilities
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8980488 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Rebecca Grollemund (0000-0001-6795-5571, University of Missouri, autor de correspondencia), David Schoenbrun (0000-0003-0964-1923), Jan Vansina (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| Año | 2023 |
| Volumen | 64 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 13-37 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2023-01-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853722000780 |
| OpenAlex | W4317885836 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 9 |
| Referencias citadas | 27 |
This essay interprets a classification of Africa's Bantu languages which used statistical tools guided by assumptions about farming and its chronology to analyze fresh vocabulary evidence. It shows a peeling movement from Cameroon's grassfields, into southern Cameroon, then along a savanna corridor through West Central Africa's rainforests, into the Savannahs, then to Southern Africa, the Great Lakes, and Indian Ocean coast. The clear sequence of movement masks methodological and historical factors. Language death, multilingualism, and the limits of vocabulary evidence restrain the classification's authority. ‘Transformations’ from food collecting to food producing or from no metals to full engagement with metals were mutable, unfolded at different speeds, and involved interactions with firstcomers. In Central Africa, Bantu speakers were often the first farmers and metal-users in the region but elsewhere they were commonly neither. Their arrivals did not immediately displace firstcomers. Computational methods can accommodate many of these issues
Bantu languages · Geography · Indian ocean · Linguistics · Movement (music · Multilingualism · Rainforest · Sociology · Vocabulary · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Ecology · Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · Oceanography
Comment on Schmidt et al., “Remaking the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda
Frontiers of cuisine
The Sangha River Interval, Its Earliest Village Settlements, and the Bantu-Speakers’ Expansion During the Late Holocene (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Republic)
Reconstructing the Historical Structure of the Bantu Language Family
Multilingualism at the Crossroads of Africa
Pikunda-Munda
Remaki n g the Late Holocene Environment of Western Uganda
Pikunda-Munda and Batalimo-Maluba
Yeyi
Speaking with Substance
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Bantu-Ubangi language contact and the origin of labial-velar stops in Lingombe (Bantu, C41, DRC)
A History of African Motherhood
Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archeological deposits
Bantu in the Crystal Ball, I
Linguistic Evidence for the Introduction of Ironworking into Bantu-Speaking Africa
Capturing People on the Move
Ceramics, settlements and Late Iron Age migrations
Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa
Bantu in the Crystal Ball, II
Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa
Ceramics and the Early Swahili
New Linguistic Evidence and ‘The Bantu Expansion’
Slow Revolution’ in Southern Africa
The Contributions of Linguistics to the Study of History in Africa
Pottery and Politics
The earliest iron-producing communities in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa
Pots are pots, not people
New Perspectives on Eastern Bantu
A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages
Towards Greater Accuracy in Lexicostatistic Dating
Studies in African Linguistic Classification
| Obras citantes distintas | 9 |
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| Citas por año | 4,5 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 9 |