Cultural Change in the Prehistory of Arid Africa
Perspectives of Archaeology and Linguistics
Edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †. With contributions by: Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Wilfrid H.G. Haacke, Friederike Jesse, Birgit Keding, Reinhard Klein-Arendt, Eileen Kose, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Jürgen Richter, Gerda Rossel, Rainer Voßen.
Series: SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, Volume 18
2007230 pp.
20 maps, 1 photo, 15 figures and overviews, 1 diagram, 5 tables
Text language(s): English
Format: 170 x 240 mm
590 g
Paperback
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CONTENTS
Preface
Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst / Birgit Keding: Meat or Milk? Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence for the Peridynastic Use of Cattle in the Eastern Sahara
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Eastern Sudanic and the Wadi Howar and Wadi el Milk Diaspora
Wilfrid H.G. Haacke: Linguistic Hypotheses on the Origin of Namibian Khoekhoe Speakers
Friederike Jesse / Reinhard Klein-Arendt: Putting together Archaeology and Historical Linguistics – The Case of Pottery
Eileen Kose / Jürgen Richter: The Prehistory of the Kavango People
Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: Linguistic Evidence of Cultural Change – The Case of the Rumanyo Speaking People in Northern Namibia
Gerda Rossel: The study of Ensete Crop History
Rainer Vossen: Languages of the Desert … and what they can tell us about the Economic History of Southern Africa
General Bibliography
Contributors
Under these links you will find publications by the contributors and further ethnohistorical studies of southern Africa:
Accompanying material:
- A Grammatical Sketch of Rugciriku (Rumanyo)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-542-0 ) - Historical Language Contact in Africa
(ISBN 978-3-89645-091-3 ) - Language Contact, Language Change and History Based on Language Sources in Africa
(ISBN 978-3-89645-093-7 ) - Namibian Languages
(ISBN 978-3-89645-080-7 ) - Towards Interdisciplinarity
(ISBN 978-3-89645-886-5 )
Cross-reference:
- Afrikaner schreiben zurück
(ISBN 978-3-89645-053-1 ) - Alfred Schachtzabels Reise nach Angola 1913–1914 und seine Sammlungen für das Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin
(ISBN 978-3-927620-21-6 ) - Animal Husbands, Magic Horns and Water Spirits
(ISBN 978-3-89645-221-4 ) - Bridging the Unbridgeable
(ISBN 978-3-89645-275-7 ) - Catalogue of the Khoisan Folktales of Southern Africa
(ISBN 978-3-89645-870-4 ) - Die ethnographische Sammlung aus Südwest-Angola im Museum von Dundo, Angola (1954). Katalog
(ISBN 978-3-89645-161-3 ) - Narrations of the Kavango
(ISBN 978-3-89645-279-5 ) - Reference Grammar of Herero (Otjiherero)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-602-1 ) - Sprachwandel durch Sprachkontakt am Beispiel des Nubischen im Niltal
(ISBN 978-3-927620-26-1 ) - Studien zur Geschichte Angolas im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert
(ISBN 978-3-927620-96-4 )
Reviews
This volume gives us an excellent opportunity to look at the state of affairs in the language-and-history domain.
Maarten Kossmann in Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 31/1, 2010, 109-114
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