Comparing African Spaces

Edited by: Sabine Neumann. With a preface by: Sabine Neumann. With contributions by: Felix Ameka, Andreas Dafinger, Peter Gottschligg, Doris Löhr, Antje Meißner, Sabine Neumann, Mechthild Reh, Anne Storch, Thomas Widlok.

Series: FAB Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin Year 1999, Volume 11

1999
165 pp.
11 graphs, 18 tables
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
270 g
Paperback
€ 39.80

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CONTENTS

Sabine Neumann: Preface of the Editor

Felix Ameka: Spatial information packaging in Ewe and Likbe – A comparative perspective

Andreas Dafinger: Spatial order and social navigation

Peter Gottschligg: Senegal language deixis and its development in Fula dialects

Sabine Neumann / Anne Storch: Locative class related affixes in some Benue-Congo languages

Mechthild Reh: 'Body', 'Back', and 'belly' – Or: On the antonyms of 'inside' and their conceptual sources

Thomas Widlok: A place to rest and to talk – Spatial and linguistic shifts in northern Namibia

FURTHER ARTICLES

Doris Löhr: Traces of a lost gender distinction? A study of Malgwa (Central Chadic) zoonymes


Book Reviews · Compte-rendus de publications

Norbert Cyffer: A sketch of Kanuri (Doris Löhr)

Till Förster: Zerrissene Entfaltung. Alltag, Ritual und künstlerische Ausdrucksformen im Norden der Cote d'Ivoire (Antje Meißner)

Edwin Wilmsen: The Kalahari Ethnographies (1896–1898) of Siegfried Passarge (Sabine Neumann)

Under these links you will find publications by the contributors and further studies of deixis and of the conceptualization of space, nature, environment, (e)motion and health in African languages and cultures:

Accompanying material:

• Anthropologie des Raumes (ISBN 978-3-89645-217-7)
• Deictics, Copula, and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area (ISBN 978-3-89645-293-1)
• Encoding Emotions in Swahili (ISBN 978-3-89645-715-8)
• Encoding Motion – Case Studies from Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-505-5)
• Konzeptualisierung von Landschaft im Mbukushu (K.333/K.43) Bantusprache in Nord-Namibia) (ISBN 978-3-89645-600-7)
• Man and Health in the Lake Chad Basin / L’homme et la santé dans le bassin du lac Tchad (ISBN 978-3-89645-897-1)
• Medicine Experts of the |Xam San (ISBN 978-3-89645-147-7)
• Motion in Datooga (ISBN 978-3-89645-668-7)
• Reference Grammar of Kanuri (Nigeria) (ISBN 978-3-89645-670-0)
• Räumliche Orientierung in nilotischen Sprachen (ISBN 978-3-89645-661-8)
• The |Xam and the Rain (ISBN 978-3-89645-866-7)

Cross-reference:

• Brunnen und Felder (ISBN 978-3-89645-895-7)
• Environmental and Cultural Dynamics in the West African Savanna (ISBN 978-3-89645-478-2)
• Locative and Non-locative in Kiswahili Bantu (ISBN 978-3-89645-713-4)
• Nilo-Saharan – Models and Descriptions (ISBN 978-3-89645-665-6)
• Perception of the Invisible (ISBN 978-3-89645-603-8)
• Spaces in Movement (ISBN 978-3-89645-905-3)
• Towards Interdisciplinarity (ISBN 978-3-89645-886-5)

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