The Swahili World explores aspects of the archaeology, history, linguistics and anthropology of the eastern African coast. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, during which time the coast was initially settled, towns developed, people converted to Islam, and successive colonial regimes preceded the current nation states which make u
The Swahili World explores aspects of the archaeology, history, linguistics and anthropology of the eastern African coast. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, during which time the coast was initially settled, towns developed, people converted to Islam, and successive colonial regimes preceded the current nation states which make u
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.
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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
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
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