Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 274 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520262042
,
0520262050
,
0520947592
,
9780520262041
,
9780520262058
,
9780520947597
Serie:
The California world history library 16
Inhalt:
This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places poorly served by written documentation, but also to enrich our understanding of well-documented regions and eras. A leading historian as well as historical linguist of Africa, Ehret provides in-depth examples from the language phyla of Africa, arguing that his comprehensive treatment can be applied by
Inhalt:
Methods and myths -- Writing history from linguistic evidence -- Historical inference from transformations in the vocabularies of culture -- Historical inference from word borrowing -- Linguistic dating -- History in the Sahara : society and economy in the early Holocene -- Social transformation in the Horn of Africa, 500 BCE to 500 CE -- Recovering the history of extinct societies : a case study from East Africa -- Cultural diffusion in the Atlantic age : American crops in Eastern Africa
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ehret, Christopher History and the testimony of language Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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Mehr zum Autor:
Ehret, Christopher 1941-
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