Kathryn M De Luna
Biographic Data
| ID | 286780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn M De Luna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn M |
| FAMILY NAME | De Luna |
| SIGNATURE | DE LUNA K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3496-2115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Affective Trajectories
In Consideration of a Post-Professional Archaeology
Marissa Moorman. Powerful Frequencies
Journal Article Marissa Moorman. Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002. Get access Marissa Moorman. Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 257. Cloth $80.00, paper $34.95. Kathryn M. de Luna Kathryn M. de Luna Georgetown University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change
Amassing Global History
This essay takes as its framework the competing definitions of ‘global’ as a concept through which we can reconsider the scope of global history. More specifically, it advocates for the adoption of truly global archives, such as the historical information embedded in language, by the field. Such a methodological move will generate historical scholarship that better situates the impact of oral societies in global history on their own terms. Cover …
Capturing People on the Move
Conclusion
Speaking with Substance
When Did Feasting Emerge on the Eastern African Coast? New Perspectives from Historical Linguistics and Archaeology
Tracing Language Movement in Africa
For both scholars and the informed layman, the great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa invites notions of Africa as a fragmented place. Our language maps perpetuate the image by drawing discrete language groups. In fact, most people can communicate with most others within and across their state boundaries. Many disciplines look carefully at language movement and change on the continent, but seldom do they engage with each other. Th…
Localizing the Global
By the late 19th century, a caravan trade extended from the Indian and Atlantic littorals through the hinterlands of south central Africa. Industrial commodities—guns, cloths, iron, and beads—were exchanged for ivory, slaves, beeswax, and rubber. Along the trade routes and in trading centers, words spread to describe new commodities, new peoples, new trading customs, and new forms of political power. These Wanderwörter originated in the languages…
Speaking with Substance
This volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data. The introduction lays out the supplemental approach, situating it in the broader context of similar interdisciplinary research methods in other world regions. Reflecting the arguments of the volume and its goal to document the process rather than the outcome of interdisciplinary collaboration, the volume is…
Inciteful language
The word busongo names a kind of technological ‘know-how’ across a large number of languages in south central Africa, a distribution that is a testament to the word’s age. This essay reconstructs the history of the invention and changing meanings of busongo from its first millennium origins and tracks its use to the present using the methods of comparative historical linguistics. The resulting history illustrates the interplay of affective and se…
Compelling Vansina
This short essay explores Jan Vansina’s contributions to the study of Africa’s early pasts. In particular, it explores the impact of sustained ethnographic fieldwork on Vansina’s narrative style, which often imagined for deeper pasts the sorts of small-scale social interactions definitive of most experiences of fieldwork. This narrative style produced a tension between Vansina’s interest in large-scale institutions and historical processes and th…
Conceptualizing vegetation in the Bantu Expansion
Rethinking Ingombe Ilede and its hinterland
The late fifteenth- to early seventeenth-century dates reported by Susan McIntosh and Brian Fagan (above) for the richest burials at Ingombe Ilede challenge well-known narratives concerning trade and politics in greater Zambezia. For example, as the authors indicate, Ingombe Ilede now seems more an outcome of the destabilised politics of Great Zimbabwe than a cause of its demise. The role that the inhabitants of Ingombe Ilede played in the shifti…
The Gun in Central Africa
Macola’s new book about the history of guns traces the diverse ways in which societies of the central African savannas domesticated or rejected foreign technology in pursuit of local concerns between the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scholars have long recognized that guns were essential trade goods in the nineteenth century, but Macola argues that debates about guns’ relative historical significance often suffer from a technological …
Collecting Food, Cultivating People
Collecting Food, Cultivating People
Planting Settlements, Forging the Savanna
Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History
This essay takes as its starting point a question: do historians of Africa’s early and more recent pasts need each other’s labor histories when studying the relationship between work and mobility?[1][1] A response in the negative foregrounds the differences between the economic and political
Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History
Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History Kathryn M. De Luna (bio) This essay takes as its starting point a question: do historians of Africa's early and more recent pasts need each other's labor histories when studying the relationship between work and mobility?1 A response in the negative foregrounds the differences between the economic and political worlds of Africans living before the fifteenth century and the economi…
Surveying the Boundaries of Historical Linguistics and Archaeology
Hunting Reputations
The familiar mystique of African hunters was not a foregone conclusion to the practitioners, dependents, and leaders who created it. Late in the first millennium, Botatwe farmers’ successful adoption of cereals and limited cattle sustained the transformation of hunting from a generalist's labor into a path to distinction. Throughout the second millennium, the basis of hunters’ renown diversified as trade intensified, new political traditions emer…
Thinking Across the African Past
Thinking Across the African Past
Surveying the Boundaries of Historical Linguistics and Archaeology
Hunting Reputations
The familiar mystique of African hunters was not a foregone conclusion to the practitioners, dependents, and leaders who created it. Late in the first millennium, Botatwe farmers’ successful adoption of cereals and limited cattle sustained the transformation of hunting from a generalist's labor into a path to distinction. Throughout the second millennium, the basis of hunters’ renown diversified as trade intensified, new political traditions emer…
Capturing People on the Move
Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History
Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History Kathryn M. De Luna (bio) This essay takes as its starting point a question: do historians of Africa's early and more recent pasts need each other's labor histories when studying the relationship between work and mobility?1 A response in the negative foregrounds the differences between the economic and political worlds of Africans living before the fifteenth century and the economi…
Rethinking Ingombe Ilede and its hinterland
The late fifteenth- to early seventeenth-century dates reported by Susan McIntosh and Brian Fagan (above) for the richest burials at Ingombe Ilede challenge well-known narratives concerning trade and politics in greater Zambezia. For example, as the authors indicate, Ingombe Ilede now seems more an outcome of the destabilised politics of Great Zimbabwe than a cause of its demise. The role that the inhabitants of Ingombe Ilede played in the shifti…
The Gun in Central Africa
Macola’s new book about the history of guns traces the diverse ways in which societies of the central African savannas domesticated or rejected foreign technology in pursuit of local concerns between the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scholars have long recognized that guns were essential trade goods in the nineteenth century, but Macola argues that debates about guns’ relative historical significance often suffer from a technological …
Classifying Botatwe
This article traces the history of linguistic scholarship on the Bantu Botatwe languages first identified by Julius Torrend in the early 20th century and assesses the current state of the literature on the classification of the Bantu M. 60 (Botatwe) group. Over the course of the 20th century, the notion of language relatedness was reconfigured into arguments about ethnic relatedness and, eventually, political affiliation, by speakers of the Bantu…
Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies
Book Review| October 01 2010 Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies. Katherine Homewood. Kathryn M. De Luna Kathryn M. De Luna Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 539–540. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.4.539 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kathryn M. De Luna; Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies.…
Surveying the Boundaries of Historical Linguistics and Archaeology
Hunting Reputations
The familiar mystique of African hunters was not a foregone conclusion to the practitioners, dependents, and leaders who created it. Late in the first millennium, Botatwe farmers’ successful adoption of cereals and limited cattle sustained the transformation of hunting from a generalist's labor into a path to distinction. Throughout the second millennium, the basis of hunters’ renown diversified as trade intensified, new political traditions emer…
Thinking Across the African Past
Collecting Food, Cultivating People
Collecting Food, Cultivating People
Planting Settlements, Forging the Savanna
Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History
This essay takes as its starting point a question: do historians of Africa’s early and more recent pasts need each other’s labor histories when studying the relationship between work and mobility?[1][1] A response in the negative foregrounds the differences between the economic and political
Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History
Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History Kathryn M. De Luna (bio) This essay takes as its starting point a question: do historians of Africa's early and more recent pasts need each other's labor histories when studying the relationship between work and mobility?1 A response in the negative foregrounds the differences between the economic and political worlds of Africans living before the fifteenth century and the economi…
Conceptualizing vegetation in the Bantu Expansion
Rethinking Ingombe Ilede and its hinterland
The late fifteenth- to early seventeenth-century dates reported by Susan McIntosh and Brian Fagan (above) for the richest burials at Ingombe Ilede challenge well-known narratives concerning trade and politics in greater Zambezia. For example, as the authors indicate, Ingombe Ilede now seems more an outcome of the destabilised politics of Great Zimbabwe than a cause of its demise. The role that the inhabitants of Ingombe Ilede played in the shifti…
The Gun in Central Africa
Macola’s new book about the history of guns traces the diverse ways in which societies of the central African savannas domesticated or rejected foreign technology in pursuit of local concerns between the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scholars have long recognized that guns were essential trade goods in the nineteenth century, but Macola argues that debates about guns’ relative historical significance often suffer from a technological …
Tracing Language Movement in Africa
For both scholars and the informed layman, the great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa invites notions of Africa as a fragmented place. Our language maps perpetuate the image by drawing discrete language groups. In fact, most people can communicate with most others within and across their state boundaries. Many disciplines look carefully at language movement and change on the continent, but seldom do they engage with each other. Th…
Localizing the Global
By the late 19th century, a caravan trade extended from the Indian and Atlantic littorals through the hinterlands of south central Africa. Industrial commodities—guns, cloths, iron, and beads—were exchanged for ivory, slaves, beeswax, and rubber. Along the trade routes and in trading centers, words spread to describe new commodities, new peoples, new trading customs, and new forms of political power. These Wanderwörter originated in the languages…
Speaking with Substance
This volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data. The introduction lays out the supplemental approach, situating it in the broader context of similar interdisciplinary research methods in other world regions. Reflecting the arguments of the volume and its goal to document the process rather than the outcome of interdisciplinary collaboration, the volume is…
Inciteful language
The word busongo names a kind of technological ‘know-how’ across a large number of languages in south central Africa, a distribution that is a testament to the word’s age. This essay reconstructs the history of the invention and changing meanings of busongo from its first millennium origins and tracks its use to the present using the methods of comparative historical linguistics. The resulting history illustrates the interplay of affective and se…
Compelling Vansina
This short essay explores Jan Vansina’s contributions to the study of Africa’s early pasts. In particular, it explores the impact of sustained ethnographic fieldwork on Vansina’s narrative style, which often imagined for deeper pasts the sorts of small-scale social interactions definitive of most experiences of fieldwork. This narrative style produced a tension between Vansina’s interest in large-scale institutions and historical processes and th…
Conclusion
Speaking with Substance
When Did Feasting Emerge on the Eastern African Coast? New Perspectives from Historical Linguistics and Archaeology
Capturing People on the Move
Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change
Amassing Global History
This essay takes as its framework the competing definitions of ‘global’ as a concept through which we can reconsider the scope of global history. More specifically, it advocates for the adoption of truly global archives, such as the historical information embedded in language, by the field. Such a methodological move will generate historical scholarship that better situates the impact of oral societies in global history on their own terms. Cover …
Marissa Moorman. Powerful Frequencies
Journal Article Marissa Moorman. Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002. Get access Marissa Moorman. Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 257. Cloth $80.00, paper $34.95. Kathryn M. de Luna Kathryn M. de Luna Georgetown University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
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