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OverviewThe Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found there today. Swahili towns contain monumental palaces, tombs, and mosques, set among more humble houses; they were home to fishers, farmers, traders, and specialists of many kinds. The towns have been Muslim since perhaps the eighth century CE, participating in international networks connecting people around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond. Successive colonial regimes have helped shape modern Swahili society, which has incorporated such influences into the region’s long-standing cosmopolitan tradition. This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective. Each chapter offers a unique wealth of detail on an aspect of the region’s past, written by the leading scholars on the subject. The result is a book that allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to explore the diversity of the Swahili tradition, how Swahili society has changed over time, as well as how our understandings of the region have shifted since Swahili studies first began. Scholars of the African continent will find the most nuanced and detailed consideration of Swahili culture, language and history ever produced. For readers unfamiliar with the region or the people involved, the chapters here provide an ideal introduction to a new and wonderful geography, at the interface of Africa and the Indian Ocean world, and among a people whose culture remains one of Africa’s most distinctive achievements. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephanie Wynne-Jones , Adria LaViolettePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 1.387kg ISBN: 9781138913462ISBN 10: 1138913464 Pages: 672 Publication Date: 20 October 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback 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 ContentsList 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 monumentsReviewsWinner of the 2021 Book Prize of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists for best edited volume on any topic. 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 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 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 Winner of the 2021 Book Prize of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists for best edited volume on any topic. 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 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 "“This edited volume provides a compilation of research carried out on the Swahili coast and its archaeological sites” Stéphane 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 InformationAdria 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 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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