Overview
- A collaboration between two specialists of early African history, an archaeologist and an historical linguist
- Illuminates the relative value of linguistic and/or archaeological evidence for precolonial African history
- Uses African case studies to draw broader conclusions about the study and practice of archaeology
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology (BRIEFSARCHAE)
Part of the book sub series: Contributions from Africa (BRIEFSCOAF)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About the authors
Kathryn M. de Luna is an historian of early central Africa and Associate Professor of African History at Georgetown University. She is the author of Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa (Yale, 2016) and co-editor with Ericka Albaugh of Tracing Language Movement in Africa (Oxford, 2018). Her current research focuses on the history of pyrotechnologies and the senses in early central Africa.
Jeffrey Fleisher is an archaeologist of complex societies specializing on the Swahili coast of eastern Africa. His current research at the medieval site of Songo Mnara in Tanzania focuses on the use of open space with Swahili towns; he has worked to integrate historical linguistic data with archaeological materials from this site in order to interpret spatial activities. His previous research on Pemba Island, Tanzania focused on the ritual politics of consumption, addressing feasting practices and emergence of social power.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Speaking with Substance
Book Subtitle: Methods of Language and Materials in African History
Authors: Kathryn M. de Luna, Jeffrey B. Fleisher
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91036-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91034-5Published: 06 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91036-9Published: 27 June 2018
Series ISSN: 1861-6623
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 161
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Linguistic Anthropology, African Languages