Author: Edwin William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
Author: Edwin William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
Author: Edwin William SmithWomen's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa
Author: Christine SaidiPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A radical reassessment of the importance of women in East-Central African society during the precolonial period.
The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
Author: Edwin William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Ila-Tonga Peoples of North-Western Rhodesia
Author: M. A. JaspanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315304732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
The Ila Speaking
Author: Dennis G. FowlerPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825861155
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
" ""The Ila Speaking"" is a record of life in a Central African village around a century ago. It originated in conversations recorded by Methodist missionaries as they attempted to learn the language and customs of the Ila people. Over the years 1906 to 1966 they collected over 12000 items. What began as a vocabulary with examples ended as the self-portrait of a people and a way of life. The author worked with the Ila from 1958 to 1966, later producing a ""Dictionary of Ila Usage"" (LIT Verlag 2000). The present book is a series of extracts from the dictionary arranged by subject, with a commentary. It is the author's hope that `the voices come over loud and clear to you the reader, and that you come away from this book with a feel for Ila humour, Ila life, and Ila reflections on people and their ways. I did, and I am sure you will too' (Professor Graham Furniss, School of Oriental and African Studies - London). "
The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
Author: Edwin William SmithThe Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
Author: Edwin William SmithThe Southern Lunda and Related Peoples (Northern Rhodesia, Belgian Congo, Angola)
Author: Merran MccullochPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315305178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
A Dictionary of Ila Usage, 1860-1960
Author: Dennis G. FowlerPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825847678
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
This book is based on material collected by missionaries at Kasenga Mission in Zambia. Edwin Smith began in 1901 to note each new Ila word, together with illustrative sentences dictated by his Ila informants. Later missionaries continued this practice, so that in 1959 the author found a mass of over 12,000 items already collected. As the largest body of Ila ever assembled, the dictionary offers much of interest in several fields. The language has a consistent agglutinative structure of great sophistication, logical as Latin, flexible as Greek. The speakers reveal not merely the preoccupations of daily existence in Ila villages a century ago, but an outlook both sensitive and wryly humourous. Feared in battle, fearful of spirits, revering God; hunters of lion and buffalo, polygamous, romantic, ribald in men's company, but highly proper in women's, tender towards children, with a high regard for the arts of hospitality, conversation, and love, the Baila spring with verve from these pages. Appendices list nearly 2,000 synonyms, 276 proverbs, l64 metaphors, 216 customs, 400 trees with their medicinal uses, 290 plants, 150 birds, and grammatical tables.