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Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa
In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in Northeast Africa. The thread that runs through the book is the life and times of Sittī ‘Alawiyya al-Mīrġanī (1892-1940), a representative of a well-established transnational Sufi order in the Red Sea region. Silvia Bruzzi gives us not only a social history of the colonial encounter in the Eritrean colony, but also a wider historical account of supra-regional dynamics across the Red Sea, the Ethiopian hinterland, and the Mediterranean region, using a wide range of fragmentary historical materials to make an important contribution towards filling the gap that currently exists in women's and gender history in Muslim societies.
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-East Africa
Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities. Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.
Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa
Relates violent conflict through the 19th and 20th centuries in the region of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the Sudanese and Somali frontiers to ethnic, political, and religious conflict and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region.
Divine Fertility
This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore, in highlighting the diversity in pre-Christian, pre-Islamic regional beliefs and practices that extend beyond the simplistic political arguments of the current dominant narratives, the study shows that for millennia complex indigenous institutions have bound people together beyond the labels of Christianity and Islam; they have sustained peace through cultural exchange and tolerance (if not always complete acceptance). Through recent archaeological and ethnographic research, the concepts, landscapes, materials and rituals believed to be associated with the indigenous a...
Aksum and Nubia
Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these two regions. Hatke argues that ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified area politically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopia developed within very different regional spheres of interaction, as a result of which the Nubian kingdom of Kush came to focus its energies on the Nile Valley, relying on this as its main...
The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology
This Handbook provides a comprehensive synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.
The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Among the poorest and least developed regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa has long faced a heavy burden of disease, with malaria, tuberculosis, and, more recently, HIV being among the most prominent contributors to that burden. Yet in most parts of Africa-and especially in those areas with the greatest health care needs-the data available to health planners to better understand and address these problems are extremely limited. The vast majority of Africans are born and will die without being recorded in any document or spearing in official statistics. With few exceptions, African countries have no civil registration systems in place and hence are unable to continuously generate vital st...
The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa
Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Sources, Acknowledgements -- Note On Typography: Symbols And Abbreviations -- Addenda -- 1. Moru-Mangbetu Languages -- 2. Bongo-Bagirmi Languages -- 3· Sere-Mundu Languages -- 4· Mba Group -- 5· Zande -- 6. Banda-Gbaya-Ngbandi Languages -- 7· Bua Group -- 8. Somrai Group -- 9· East Saharan Languages -- 10. Mimi -- 11. Maba Group -- 12. Tama Group -- 13. Fur -- 14· Daju Group -- 15. Nyimang Group -- 16. Temein Group -- 17. Katla Group -- 18. Koalib-Tagoi Languages -- 19. Kadugli-Krongo Group -- 20. Nubian Group -- 21. Barea -- 22. Kunama -- 23. Berta -- 24. Tabi -- 25. 'Gule' -- 26. Koma Group -- 27. Didinga-Murle Group -- 28. Bako Group -- 29. Teuso -- 30. Nilotic Languages -- 31. Nilo-Hamitic Languages -- 32. Cushitic Languages -- 33· African Semitic Languages -- 34· Iraqw Group -- 35· Mbugu -- 36. Sanye -- Linguistic Notes -- Supplement: The Non-Bantu Languages Of Southern Africa. By E.O.J. Westphal -- 37· Sandawe-Hottentot Languages -- 38. Bushman-Hadza Languages -- Linguistic Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Ordering Africa
African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa approached subject peoples. Ordering Africa provides the first comparative history of these processes. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, the transnational features of knowledge production, and the relationship between anthropology and colonial administration, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. Specific chapters examine French West Africa, the Belgian and French Congo, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian Northeast Africa, Kenya, and Equatorial Africa (Gabon) as well as developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. A major collection of essays that will be welcomed by scholars interested in imperial history and the history of Africa.
Primates of East Africa
This laminated pocket guide contains 73 colour illustrations to aid identification and maps for locating the primates of East Africa. In addition, each species description includes arboreality, the type of habitat where it can be found and conservation status. Extensive maps of the region show country borders, major rivers and types of natural vegetation zones. You can use the checklist to note the location and date of the species you find.
