Chapurukha M Kusimba
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 109170 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chapurukha M Kusimba |
| PRENOMES | Chapurukha M |
| SOBRENOME | Kusimba |
| ASSINATURA | KUSIMBA C M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Field Museum of Natural History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4374-3475 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 316 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Beyond the Shoreline
This article advances a corridor framework for Swahili maritime history, arguing that Indian Ocean commerce along the East African coast was sustained by an integrated continental–oceanic political economy whose constituent institutions extended from interior production zones, through caravan and brokerage networks, to coastal towns, islands and beyond. Against persistent coast-centered and externalist explanations – including recent interpretati…
Oral Traditions and African Archaeology
This chapter examines the integration of oral traditions with archaeological, linguistic, and documentary evidence for reconstructing Africa’s deep past. Drawing on four decades of fieldwork on the Swahili coast of East Africa, the author argues that oral narratives—songs, genealogies, praise poetry, proverbs, riddles, and founding chronicles—constitute indispensable archives of historical memory, cultural identity, and worldview that complement …
Pioneering African Archaeology from Within
Feasting in the Late Swahili
Feasting played key roles in Swahili society during the medieval (c. 800–1500 CE) and colonial (c. 1500–1963 CE) periods, contributing to sociopolitical transformation and Islamic practice. However, the zooarchaeological signatures of feasting in the Swahili context remain poorly studied. Here, we report faunal remains recovered from the Friday Congregation Mosque Complex at Mtwapa to examine feasting and commemorative practices during the 15th–s…
Swahili Worlds in Globalism
This Element discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. It deviates from standard approaches that credit urbanism and state in Africa to non-African agents. East Africa, then and now, was part of the broader world of the Indian Ocean. Globalism coincided with the political and economic transformations that occurred during the Tang-Sung-Yuan…
Carnelian beads from Manda, Unguja Ukuu and Kwa Mgogo
Current Themes in the Archaeology of East Africa
East Africa boasts one of the longest histories of humankind. From hominid origins to the present, people have roamed, interacted with one another, and influenced the environment in innumerable ways. To teach about the archaeology of East Africa is to engage with the deepest history of humankind, from Hominin evolution to historical archaeology and the archaeology of listening. Each topic has developed its own peculiar and complex analytical meth…
Africa and Its Global Connections
Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda
Debating the Swahili
A Conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Ṣango of African Archaeology
Early States and Complex Societies in Eastern and Southern Africa
How and in what ways did socially complex societies emerge on the East African coast and southern Africa? Scholarship has shown that elite investment in interregional trade and in extractive technologies, monopolization of wealth-creating resources, and warfare may have played a key role in the emergence of early states. To what extent was elite and non-elite engagement in local, regional, and transcontinental economic networks crucial to develop…
Trade and Civilization in Medieval East Africa
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(Re)Introducing the State on the Medieval Swahili Coast
Dreaming Beyond Gini
Ancient Connections between China and East Africa
When Did the Swahili Become Maritime
In this article, we respond to an article by Jeffrey Fleisher et al. (2015) in which they pose the question: When did the Swahili become maritime? We draw from our research findings in coastal and inland Eastern Africa to show that inland African societies were an essential component in the development of Swahili urbanism and maritimity. To understand change in any part of the East African coast requires understanding the entire context of econom…
Decoding the genetic ancestry of the Swahili
Decoding the genetic ancestry of the Swahili - 1
Manda
Manda - 1
Mosaics
Mosaics - 1 - Rethinking African connections in Coastal and Hinterland Kenya
Mtwapa
Trade and State Formation in Ancient East African Coast and Southern Zambezia
Community archaeology and heritage in coastal and Western Kenya
We have conducted research on the histories of slaving in Kenya, the growth and demise of urban centres along the Kenya coast, and the origins of inter-ethnic conflict and warfare in the Mount Elgon region since 1986. Our engagement with Swahili and Bukusu peoples of Kenya has blossomed into strong bonds of friendship and trust. We are fully aware that what we write has been and continues to be a collaborative effort between our host communities …
Coercion and Warfare in the Rise of State Societies in Southern Zambezia
Beyond the Coastalscapes
Domesticated Landscapes
Archaeology of Slavery in East Africa
The Archaeology of Trading Systems, Part 1
The Trading of Ancient Glass Beads
The occurrence of similar glass beads at archaeological sites in Africa and Asia bears witness to the trade relationship between the two continents. This paper reports elemental analysis results from a recent in‐depth laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (LA–ICP–MS) study of a group of archaeological glass beads with a specific alumina‐rich composition from East Africa, India and Sri Lanka. Based on the concentrations o…
Beyond the Coastalscapes
The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production
The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production, Peter R. Schmidt. ed. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1996.338 pp
The social context of iron forging on the Kenya coast
Ironsmiths occupy an important yet ambiguous position in many African societies. They are both revered and feared, because they wield social power which arises from their access to occult knowledge, not only of metallurgy but of healing, divination, circumcision and peacemaking. In some societies smiths enjoy high status and are the wealthiest people. In others they are feared, covertly maligned, and blamed for societal misfortunes. In still othe…
Pathways to Social Complexity and State Formation in the Southern Zambezian Region
The Development and Collapse of Precolonial Ethnic Mosaics in Tsavo, Kenya
Archaeologists and historians have long believed that little interaction existed between Iron Age cities of the Kenya Coast and their rural hinterlands. Ongoing archaeological and anthropological research in Tsavo, Southeast Kenya, shows that Tsavo has been continuously inhabited at least since the early Holocene. Tsavo peoples made a living by foraging, herding, farming, and producing pottery and iron, and in the Iron Age were linked to global m…
When Did the Swahili Become Maritime
In this article, we respond to an article by Jeffrey Fleisher et al. (2015) in which they pose the question: When did the Swahili become maritime? We draw from our research findings in coastal and inland Eastern Africa to show that inland African societies were an essential component in the development of Swahili urbanism and maritimity. To understand change in any part of the East African coast requires understanding the entire context of econom…
Carnelian beads from Manda, Unguja Ukuu and Kwa Mgogo
Community archaeology and heritage in coastal and Western Kenya
We have conducted research on the histories of slaving in Kenya, the growth and demise of urban centres along the Kenya coast, and the origins of inter-ethnic conflict and warfare in the Mount Elgon region since 1986. Our engagement with Swahili and Bukusu peoples of Kenya has blossomed into strong bonds of friendship and trust. We are fully aware that what we write has been and continues to be a collaborative effort between our host communities …
Stratigraphic and geochronological context of human habitation along the Galana River, Kenya
Geoarchaeological investigations along the Galana River, eastern Kenya, document a pattern of channel aggradation and then degradation from the Middle to Late Holocene. Archaeological occupations at six sites in fluvial terraces along a ̃100 km stretch of the Galana River in Tsavo East National Park correspond with fluvial aggradation beginning ca. 6000 years ago. Artifact analyses indicate that the inhabitants of these sites utilized ceramics an…
Coercion and Warfare in the Rise of State Societies in Southern Zambezia
Mitochondrial DNA diversity in two ethnic groups in Southeastern Kenya
The Bantu languages are widely distributed throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. Genetic research supports linguists and historians who argue that migration played an important role in the spread of this language family, but the genetic data also indicates a more complex process involving substantial gene flow with resident populations. In order to understand the Bantu expansion process in east Africa, mtDNA hypervariable region I variation in 352 indiv…
Archaeology in African museums
Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda
Debating the Swahili
A Conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Ṣango of African Archaeology
Archaeology in African museums
The social context of iron forging on the Kenya coast
Ironsmiths occupy an important yet ambiguous position in many African societies. They are both revered and feared, because they wield social power which arises from their access to occult knowledge, not only of metallurgy but of healing, divination, circumcision and peacemaking. In some societies smiths enjoy high status and are the wealthiest people. In others they are feared, covertly maligned, and blamed for societal misfortunes. In still othe…
The Tsodilo Jewellery
Traditional Metalworking in Kenya
The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production
The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production, Peter R. Schmidt. ed. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1996.338 pp
Iron technology in East Africa
The Rise and Fall of Swahili States
chapter 1 Foreword by Joseph O. The Archaeology of the Swahili Coast chapter 6 3. The Swahili Coast chapter 7 4. Before the Swahili States chapter 8 5. The Swahili Civilization chapter 9 6. The Colonial Period and Demise of the Swahili States chapter 10 7. Conclusions chapter 11 Afterword chapter 12 Index chapter 13 About the Author
People, Contact and the Environment in the African Past
Domesticated Landscapes
Archaeology of Slavery in East Africa
Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa
Gillow, John. Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001; 89 pp., over 100 color illus. Paper, U.S. $19.95. This book, Printed and Dyed Textiles from Afric
The Development and Collapse of Precolonial Ethnic Mosaics in Tsavo, Kenya
Archaeologists and historians have long believed that little interaction existed between Iron Age cities of the Kenya Coast and their rural hinterlands. Ongoing archaeological and anthropological research in Tsavo, Southeast Kenya, shows that Tsavo has been continuously inhabited at least since the early Holocene. Tsavo peoples made a living by foraging, herding, farming, and producing pottery and iron, and in the Iron Age were linked to global m…
Stratigraphic and geochronological context of human habitation along the Galana River, Kenya
Geoarchaeological investigations along the Galana River, eastern Kenya, document a pattern of channel aggradation and then degradation from the Middle to Late Holocene. Archaeological occupations at six sites in fluvial terraces along a ̃100 km stretch of the Galana River in Tsavo East National Park correspond with fluvial aggradation beginning ca. 6000 years ago. Artifact analyses indicate that the inhabitants of these sites utilized ceramics an…
The Archaeology of Trading Systems, Part 1
Pathways to Social Complexity and State Formation in the Southern Zambezian Region
The Trading of Ancient Glass Beads
The occurrence of similar glass beads at archaeological sites in Africa and Asia bears witness to the trade relationship between the two continents. This paper reports elemental analysis results from a recent in‐depth laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (LA–ICP–MS) study of a group of archaeological glass beads with a specific alumina‐rich composition from East Africa, India and Sri Lanka. Based on the concentrations o…
The emergence of social and political complexity in the Shashi-Limpopo Valley of Southern Africa, AD 900–1300
The emergence of social and political complexity in the Shashi-Limpopo Valley of Southern Africa, AD 900–1300: ethnicity, class, and polity, by John Anthony Calabrese, Oxford, Archaeopress, BAR Int
East African Archaeology
Beyond the Coastalscapes
Mitochondrial DNA diversity in two ethnic groups in Southeastern Kenya
The Bantu languages are widely distributed throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. Genetic research supports linguists and historians who argue that migration played an important role in the spread of this language family, but the genetic data also indicates a more complex process involving substantial gene flow with resident populations. In order to understand the Bantu expansion process in east Africa, mtDNA hypervariable region I variation in 352 indiv…
Coercion and Warfare in the Rise of State Societies in Southern Zambezia
Decoding the genetic ancestry of the Swahili
Decoding the genetic ancestry of the Swahili - 1
Manda
Manda - 1
Mosaics
Mosaics - 1 - Rethinking African connections in Coastal and Hinterland Kenya
Mtwapa
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