TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nurse,Derek
AU  - Spear,Thomas
TI  - The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 
T2  - The Ethnohistory Series
SN  - 9780812212075
AV  - DT365.45.S93 
U1  - 960.0496392 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - African Studies
KW  - African-American Studies
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Middle Eastern Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; I. SWAHILI AND THEIR HISTORY --; 2. THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND OF SWAHILI --; 3. THE EMERGENCE OF THE SWAHILI-SPEAKING PEOPLES --; 4. EARLY SWAHILI SOCIETY, 800-1100 --; 5. RISE OF THE SWAHILI TOWNSTATES, 1100-1500 --; APPENDIXES --; ABBREVIATIONS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - "As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."-International Journal of African Historical Studies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512821666
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512821666
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ER  -