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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Middleton, John, 1921-2009 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1992.
Subjects:
Swahili-speaking peoples > Commerce.
Swahili-speaking peoples > Kinship.
Swahili-speaking peoples > Social life and customs.
Swahili (Peuple d'Afrique) > Commerce.
Swahili (Peuple d'Afrique) > Parenté.
Swahili (Peuple d'Afrique) > Mœurs et coutumes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Commerce.
Manners and customs.
Handel
Sozialstruktur
Swahili > Volk
Swahili (volk)
Swahili (peuple d'Afrique) > Commerce.
Swahili (peuple d'Afrique) > Parenté.
Swahili (peuple d'Afrique) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Lamu (Kenya) > Commerce.
Lamu (Kenya) > Social life and customs.
Zanzibar > Commerce.
Zanzibar > Social life and customs.
Lamu (Kenya) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Zanzibar > Mœurs et coutumes.
Kenya > Lamu.
Tanzania > Zanzibar.
Lamu
Zanzibar > Moeurs et coutumes.
Swahili (Volk)
Lamu.
Tribes
East Africa
oost-afrika
gezinnen
families
gezinsleven
family life
gezinsstructuur
family structure
geschiedenis
history
verwantschap
kinship
talen
languages
sociologie
sociology
handel
trade
gebruik
usage
gebruiken
customs
Economic, Social, and Cultural History of East-Africa
Economische, sociale en cultuurgeschiedenis van Oost-Afrika
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.

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