Swahili origins

Swahili culture & the Shungwaya phenomenon

Dados Bibliográficos

ID24200129
AutoresJ De V Allen (0000-0003-4830-5287)
Ano1993
Páginas272
Data de publicação1993-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoSwahili origins (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraJ. Currey (PUBLISHER)
Open LibraryOL1712256M
ISBN9780821410301
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas67

"Kiswahili has become the lingua franca of eastern Africa. Yet there can be few historic peoples whose identity is as elusive as that of the Swahili. Some have described themselves as Arabs, as Persians or even, in one place, as Portuguese. It is doubtful whether, even today, most of the people about whom this book is written would unhesitatingly and in all contexts accept the name Swahili."--BOOK JACKET. "This book was central to the thought and lifework of the late James de Vere Allen. It is his major study of the origin of the Swahili and of their cultural identity. He focuses on how the African element in their cultural patrimony was first modified by Islam and later changed until many Swahili themselves lost sight of it."--BOOK JACKET. "They share a language and they share a culture. Their territory stretches from the coast of southern Somalia to the Lamu archipelago in Kenya, to the Rovuma River in modern Mozambique and out into the islands of the Indian Ocean. But they lack a shared historical experience."--BOOK JACKET. "James de Vere Allen, in this study of contentious originality, set out to give modern Swahili evidence of their shared history during a period of eight centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

Bantu-speaking peoples · Ethnic identity · Etnografie · History · Identidad étnica · Identité collective · Identite ethnique · Pueblos de habla suahili · Swahili (Peuple d'Afrique) · Swahili (volk) · Swahili-speaking peoples