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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Middleton, John, 1921-2009 (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1992.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.