Author: George FortunePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Preliminary Survey of the Bantu Languages of the Federation
Author: George FortunePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Language in Zambia
Author: Sirarpi OhannessianPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135160516X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Originally published in 1978, this volume is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 presents an overview of the linguistic situation in Zambia: who speaks which languages, where they are spoken, what these languages are like. Special emphasis is given to the extensive survey of the languages of the Kafue basin, where extensive changes and relocations have taken place. Part 2 is on language use: patterns of competence and of extension for certain languages in urban settings, configurations of comprehension across language boundaries, how selected groups of multilinguals employ each of their languages and for what purposes, what languages are used in radio and television broadcasting and how decisions to use or not use a language are made. Part 3 involves language and formal education: what languages, Zambian and foreign, are used at various levels int he schools, which are taught, with what curricula, methods, how teachers are trained, how issues such as adult literacy are approached and with what success.
Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Jack BerryPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111562522
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
African Languages, Development and the State
Author: Richard FardonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134868030
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development
The Writing of East and Central Africa
Author: G. D. KillamPublisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9780435916718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Chewa Medical Botany
Author: Brian MorrisPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825826376
Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Although it rarely receives the attention it deserves from anthropologists, medical herbalism is perhaps the most widespread and most ancient form of therapy. This book describes in detail one such herbalist tradition, that found in southern Malawi. Offering the first comprehensive examination of medical herbalism in Malawi, this study combines anthropological and botanical insights into medical herbalism. The book is divided into two parts: the first outlines the ethnographic context of the herbalist tradition with discussion of Chewa ethnobotany and the local classification of plants; the various categories of medicine that are expressed in the local culture; the nature and scope of folk herbalism, its practitioners and its relation to biomedicine; local conceptions of disease; and beliefs relating to witchcraft and divination. The second part, which incorporates the researches of a Malawian chemist, Dr Jerome Msonthi, contains detailed information on over 500 Malawian plants with notes on their local names, distribution, botanical descriptions and various medicinal uses.
Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs
Author: Gerhard KubikPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825876012
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Various graphic systems designed to express and transmit ideas or to convey messages were known in sub-Saharan Africa in pre-colonial times, ideographic and pictographic systems. One of the most intriguing of these traditions, known across eastern Angola into northwestern Zambia, among speakers of Luchazi, Chokwe, Lwena and related languages is the tusona ideographs. This work is a fascinating excursion into symbolism, the remote history of eastern Angola, Luchazi oral literature, mathematics, graphic art and communication.
Report on Northern Rhodesia for the Year ...
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Communication
Author: Rhodes-Livingstone InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description