The Misiri legend explored : a linguistic inquiry into the Kalenjiin people's oral tradition of ancient Egyptian origin /

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How can a black people, who do not even profess to Islam, claim to have originated from Egypt, which is such an Arabic and Islamic geographical setting? But the Kalenjiin people of Kenya have held on fast to a tradition that their ancestors in antiquity were part of ancient Pharaonic Egypt, which th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sambu, Kipkoeech Araap (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nairobi, Kenya : University of Nairobi Press, 2011.
Temas:
Anthropological linguistics > Kenya.
Kalenjin (African people) > Social life and customs.
Kalenjin language.
Ethnolinguistique > Kenya.
Kalenjin (Peuple d'Afrique) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Kalenjin (Langue)
African history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Anthropological linguistics
Kalenjin language
Kenya
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Pictures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I
  • CULTURAL BACKGROUND; Introduction to Part I; CHAPTER 1
  • Who are the Kalenjiin?; The People; CHAPTER 2
  • The Hamite Factor; Definition and Overview; The Hamitisation and De-Hamitisation of the Kalenjiin; Merker's Maasai/Kalenjiin Ancient Egyptian "Semites" Theory, 1904; CHAPTER 3
  • Locating the Kalenjiin's Cradle-land and Establishing the Migration Route; The Likely Misrian Abode of Tto.
  • Assigning Reasons for the Departure from Egypt and a Time FrameThe Kalenjiin Language after Egypt; CHAPTER 4
  • And Who are the Egyptians?; Ancient Egyptian Society as an Extension of Nilotic Africa; Modern Egyptian Society, the Copts, and the Coptic Language; Summary of Part I: Cultural Background; Part II
  • COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS; Introduction to Part II; CHAPTER 5
  • Comparative vs. the Contrastive Method; Genetic Classification: A Comparative Linguistics Exercise; Diachronic and Synchronic Linguistics; Identifying and Declaring Items for a Comparative Exercise.
  • Brief Notes on the Comparative Linguistics Techniques Applied in this StudySummary of Part II: Comparative Linguistics; Part III
  • Relating the Kalenjiin Language to the ancient Egyption Language; Introduction to Part III; CHAPTER 6
  • How Important is a Linguistics Discussion to an Oral Tradition Investigating Process?; Lexicostatistical Analysis; CHAPTER 7
  • Ancient Egyptian-Kalenjiin Syntactic Analysis; Word Order; Summary of Part III: Relating the Kalenjiin Language to the Ancient Egyptian Language; Part IV
  • Conclusion; A. Conclusions from the Angle of Oral Traditions.
  • B. Conclusions from the Comparative Linguistics ExercisePart V
  • Appendices; Appendix 1
  • The Country Name "Egypt" and Other Place-name Etymologies; Appendix 2
  • The Civilising Debt as the Bone of Contention; Appendix 3
  • James Massam's Kalenjiin Hieroglyphs Story of 1927, and the Ancient Egyptian Contribution to the Modern "Western" Alphabet; Appendix 4; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Back cover.

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