Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Stephanie Wynne-Jones (The University of York) ,  Adria LaViolette
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.240kg
ISBN:  

9780367660000

ISBN 10:   0367660008
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Maps Preface Note on Terminology Contributors 1. The Swahili world Section I: Environment, background, and Swahili historiography 2. The eastern African coastal landscape 3. Resources of the ocean fringe and the archaeology of the medieval Swahili 4. The eastern African coast: researching its history and archaeology 5. Defining the Swahili 6. Decoding Swahili genetic ancestry 7. Early connections 8. The Swahili language and its early history 9. Swahili origins 10. Swahili oral traditions and chronicles 11. Manda 12. Tumbe, Kimimba and Bandari Kuu 13. Unguja Ukuu 14. Chibuene 15. Urbanism 16. Town and village 17. Mambrui and Malindi 18. Shanga 19. Gede 20. Mtwapa 21. Pemba 22. Zanzibar 23. Mafia 24. Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara 25. Mikindani and the southern coast 26. The Comoros and their early history 27. The Comoros 1000 - 1350 CE 28. Mahilaka 29. The social composition of Swahili society 30. Metalworking on Swahili sites 31. Craft and industry 32. Animals in the Swahili world 33. Plant use and the creation of anthropogenic landscapes: coastal forestry and farming 34. The progressive integration of eastern Africa into an Afro-Eurasian world-system, first-fifteenth centuries CE 35. Eastern Africa and the dhow trade 36. Early inland entanglement in the Swahili world, c. 750-1550 CE 37. Mosaics and interconnectivity 38. Links with India 39.Links with China 40. Currencies of the Swahili world 41. Glass beads and Indian Ocean trade 42. Quantitative evidence for early long-distance exchange in eastern Africa: the consumption volume of ceramic imports 43. Islamic architecture of the Swahili coast 44. Swahili houses 45. Navigating the early modern world: Swahili polities and the continental-oceanic interface 46. Zanzibar old town 47. The Kilwa – Nyasa caravan route: the long-neglected trading corridor in southern Tanzania 48. Islam in the Swahili world: Connected authorities 49. The legacy of slavery on the Swahili coast 50. Life in Swahili villages 51. The modern life of Swahili stonetowns 52. Identity and belonging on the contemporary Swahili coast: the case of Lamu 53. Pate 54. Mombasa 55. The Swahili house: a historical ethnography of modernity 56. The future of Swahili monuments

Reviews

This edited volume provides a compilation of research carried out on the Swahili coast and its archaeological sites Stephane Pradines, Aga Khan Centre, UK, Antiquity Publications This book is a great resource for those working along the Swahili coast and interior areas with similar archaeological deposits. Indeed, I finished reading the book with a better understanding of the history, archaeology, linguistics, and anthropology of the Swahili coast. From these perspectives, the authors have explored the Swahili coast's history from what they consider to be the earliest settlements to the remains of complex monumental structures found there today. This unique wealth of the detail on past of the Swahili coast is the true strength of the book that Wynne-jones and LaViolette produced for us. Elgidius B. Ichumbaki, African Archeological Review

Author Information

Adria LaViolette is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Virginia. Her interest in the Swahili coast began in 1987 while teaching at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Since then she has conducted archaeological research on the Tanzanian mainland coast and on Pemba and Zanzibar islands. She has been Editor-in-Chief of African Archaeological Review since 2009. Stephanie Wynne-Jones is currently Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, affiliated with Uppsala University. She has been Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of York since 2011 and is a core group member of the Centre for Network Evolutions at Aarhus University (DNRF119). She has conducted archaeological research on the Swahili coast since 2000, in Kenya, Tanzania, and on the Zanzibar archipelago.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions