Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaeology, History, Languages, Cultures, and Environments

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICA. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa. Archaeology, History, Languages, Cultures and Environments. Edited by JOSEPH O. VOGEL. London: Sage, 1997. Pp. 605. 95 (ISBN 0-7619-8902-1)

An Outline of the Later Holocene Archaeology and Precolonial History of the Ewaso Basin, Kenya

Drawing on a range of archaeological, paleoenvironmental, linguistic, ethnographic, and historical data, this chapter outlines what is currently known about the trajectories of pastoralism in the Ewaso Basin from its initial appearance some 4000 years ago until the early twentieth century, by which time new systems of land use and tenure had been established within the context of British coloni...

Transculturation and Multilingual Lives: Writing between Languages and Cultures

This paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. The paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...

Archaeology augments Tibet's genetic history.

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Languages, Genes, and Cultures

This paper examines three situations in which distances between languages, genes, and cultures matter. The first is concerned with the determinants, which govern the learning of foreign languages. One of these is the “difficulty” of the foreign language, represented by the distance between the native and the foreign language. The second case deals with the formation and breaking-up of nations. ...