Kairn A. Klieman

The Pygmies Were Our Compass

Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to C. 1900 C.E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. Covering more than 2,000 years this important region's history, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to the knowledge of pre-colonial Africa. It is the first historical work to reconstruct a Batwa or Pygmy past, thereby questioning Western epistemologies that have long portrayed the Batwa as a quintessential people without history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780325071046
• ISBN-10: 0325071047
• Artikelnr.: 20977765

Autorenporträt

Kairn A. Klieman

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps, Figures, and TablesMAPS1Speech Communities Included in Lexicostatistical Classification xxiv2.1The Physical Geography of West
Central Africa 372.2Initial Divergence out of Northwestern Cameroon, c. 4000
2700 b.c.e. 442.3The Formation of New Speech Communities, c. 2700
1500 b.c.e. 464.1Early Ironworking Sites in West and Central Africa 1004.2New Pottery Traditions, c. 1500
500 b.c.e. 1056.1West
Central Africa during the Atlantic era, c. 1500
1900 c.e. 173FIGURE2.1Successive Divergences of the Proto
Bantu Speech Community 45TABLES2.1Classificatory Schema for Archaeological Data 524.1The Formation of New Speech Communities, c. 1500
500 b.c.e. 1044.2aProto
Babinga Vocabulary 1124.2bProbable Proto
Babinga Vocabulary 1146.1The Formation of New Speech Communities, c. 700
1000 c.e. 1716.2Ebongwe Lexicon 1926.3Forest
Specialist Languages of Southern Congo Republic and Gabon 206