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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ehret, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social history.
Language and history.
History > Methodology.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
HISTORY > Historiography.
social history.
Histoire sociale.
Langage et histoire.
Histoire > Methodologie.
Social Conditions
Africa.
Afrique > Histoire.
Africa > History.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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