The world of the Swahili : an African mercantile civilization /
"The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. In this book a leading Africanist presents the first full-length anthropological account of the Swahili and offers an original analysis of their little-understood and unusual cu...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1992.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The Swahili people and their coast
- The merchants and the predators
- Towns
- Kinship, descent, and family
- Perpetuation and alliance
- Transformation of the person
- Power, ritual, and knowledge
- Civilization and identity.