Jeffrey B Fleisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey B Fleisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey B |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleisher |
| SIGNATURE | FLEISHER J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University, Houston, TX |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hunting, Fishing, and Herding in Later Stone Age and Iron Age Zambia
Assembling Islamic practice in a Swahili urban landscape, 11th-16th centuries
Spanning c. 1050-1500 CE, a burgeoning Swahili community called Chwaka built a sequence of four mortared coral mosques in their town of wattle-and-daub houses on Pemba Island, Tanzania. The mosques' placement, construction, and use played an active role in creating and strengthening an Islamic community and help us define changes in social practice within the town and the larger polity in which it existed. It is argued that the construction of ea…
Conclusion
Speaking with Substance
When Did Feasting Emerge on the Eastern African Coast? New Perspectives from Historical Linguistics and Archaeology
Developments in Rural Life on the Eastern African Coast, a.d. 700–1500
The eastern African coast is known for its Swahili “stonetowns.” Archaeological study of stonetowns has overshadowed that of Swahili rural life, and how it reformulated in the context of urban transformations after a.d. 1000. To help redress that imbalance, we focus here on village research carried out in a Swahili heartland—Pemba Island, Tanzania—in the context of two archaeological projects. We feature four settlements: later 1st millennium Kim…
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…
Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory
Situating the Swahili house
A focus on locating and exploring the temporally deeper roots of the Swahili towns, the search for Swahili origins, became an important research topic, and continues to be so today. Local discourses on identity and meaning, actively engaged in by the Swahili themselves, as well as other local intellectuals, offer a much more nuanced and historical understanding of the Swahili past, and thus a cautionary tale of the way that ethnoarchaeology can s…
Thinking Across the African Past
Swahili Synoecism
Archaeological survey in 1999–2000 in the northern part of Pemba Island, Tanzania, has revealed the role of rural settlements in the development of Swahili towns from A.D. 750 to 1500. The survey investigated the regions directly surrounding three towns to explore the political, economic, and religious relations between towns and surrounding villages. Results of the survey suggest that the growth of Pemban towns, although economically influenced …
Swahili Synoecism
Archaeological survey in 1999–2000 in the northern part of Pemba Island, Tanzania, has revealed the role of rural settlements in the development of Swahili towns from A.D. 750 to 1500. The survey investigated the regions directly surrounding three towns to explore the political, economic, and religious relations between towns and surrounding villages. Results of the survey suggest that the growth of Pemban towns, although economically influenced …
Thinking Across the African Past
Assembling Islamic practice in a Swahili urban landscape, 11th-16th centuries
Spanning c. 1050-1500 CE, a burgeoning Swahili community called Chwaka built a sequence of four mortared coral mosques in their town of wattle-and-daub houses on Pemba Island, Tanzania. The mosques' placement, construction, and use played an active role in creating and strengthening an Islamic community and help us define changes in social practice within the town and the larger polity in which it existed. It is argued that the construction of ea…
Swahili Synoecism
Archaeological survey in 1999–2000 in the northern part of Pemba Island, Tanzania, has revealed the role of rural settlements in the development of Swahili towns from A.D. 750 to 1500. The survey investigated the regions directly surrounding three towns to explore the political, economic, and religious relations between towns and surrounding villages. Results of the survey suggest that the growth of Pemban towns, although economically influenced …
Thinking Across the African Past
Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory
Situating the Swahili house
A focus on locating and exploring the temporally deeper roots of the Swahili towns, the search for Swahili origins, became an important research topic, and continues to be so today. Local discourses on identity and meaning, actively engaged in by the Swahili themselves, as well as other local intellectuals, offer a much more nuanced and historical understanding of the Swahili past, and thus a cautionary tale of the way that ethnoarchaeology can s…
Developments in Rural Life on the Eastern African Coast, a.d. 700–1500
The eastern African coast is known for its Swahili “stonetowns.” Archaeological study of stonetowns has overshadowed that of Swahili rural life, and how it reformulated in the context of urban transformations after a.d. 1000. To help redress that imbalance, we focus here on village research carried out in a Swahili heartland—Pemba Island, Tanzania—in the context of two archaeological projects. We feature four settlements: later 1st millennium Kim…
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…
Conclusion
Speaking with Substance
When Did Feasting Emerge on the Eastern African Coast? New Perspectives from Historical Linguistics and Archaeology
Assembling Islamic practice in a Swahili urban landscape, 11th-16th centuries
Spanning c. 1050-1500 CE, a burgeoning Swahili community called Chwaka built a sequence of four mortared coral mosques in their town of wattle-and-daub houses on Pemba Island, Tanzania. The mosques' placement, construction, and use played an active role in creating and strengthening an Islamic community and help us define changes in social practice within the town and the larger polity in which it existed. It is argued that the construction of ea…
Hunting, Fishing, and Herding in Later Stone Age and Iron Age Zambia
Archaeology (8 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Swahili (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works)