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History and the Testimony of Language /
This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places poo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Methods and myths -- Writing history from linguistic evidence -- Historical inference from transformations in the vocabularies of culture -- Historical inference from word borrowing -- Linguistic dating -- History in the Sahara : society and economy in the early Holocene -- Social transformation in the Horn of Africa, 500 BCE to 500 CE -- Recovering the history of extinct societies : a case study from East Africa -- Cultural diffusion in the Atlantic age : American crops in Eastern Africa. | |
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