Swahili Worlds in Globalism (eBook)

Chapurukha M. Kusimba (Autor)

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2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-07563-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This Element discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE. It deviates from standard approaches that credit urbanism and state in Africa to non-African agents. East Africa, then and now, was part of the broader world of the Indian Ocean. Globalism coincided with the political and economic transformations that occurred during the Tang-Sung-Yuan-Ming and Islamic Dynastic times, 600-1500 CE. Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through which people, inventions, and innovations bi-directionally migrated, were adopted, and evolved. Swahili peoples' agency and unique characteristics cannot be seen only through Islam's prism. Instead, their unique character is a consequence of social and economic interactions of actors along the coast, inland, and beyond the Indian Ocean.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-009-07563-2 / 1009075632
• ISBN-13: 978-1-009-07563-3 / 9781009075633