The article explores the panditas and their role function in Philippine history, examining selected depictions Spanish English sources from 17th century until early 20th centuries. As precolonial figures that illustrate link of Philippines to broader Malay world, gradually acquired embodied Islamic elements into amorphous identity practice, ultimately becoming knowledge, spirituality, culture M...

The archaeology of the immediate coastline West Africa remains surprisingly little understood, and what research has been undertaken often focused on questions relating to sea-based interactions precolonial polities lying slightly inland. This paper reports results excavations Ohlinhoué, a small lagoonal island in western Republic Bénin. A locally manufactured ceramic assemblage was recovered, ...

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...

Résumé .R. Roberts — Effets multiplicateurs et concaténation dans le commerce éco-spécialisê de l'Afrique précoloniale. Analyse critique des théories défendues par A. G. Hopkins {An Economie History of West Africa, 1973) à propos des effets produits par la division géographique (ou écologique) du travail et de la production en Afrique occidentale. L'auteur conclut que le développement économiqu...

his paper surveys the relationship between warfare and religion in precolonial Africa, with a particular focus on Eastern including Great Lakes region Ethiopian Highlands. It is argued that played central role legitimization of violence as well its memorialization. In East involved spiritual observance sanction, general evidence suggests exercise restraint violence. However irruption external d...

In Things Fall Apart the readers get to know about a few Ibo societies of both precolonial and colonial times. The protagonist novel Okonkwo is shown have different viewpoints regarding society his fatherland, Umuofia He respected lived by rules in times but after arrival colonizers, there could be seen emergence opinions between larger society. changed lot as result colonizers who brought regu...

Indian women’s writing from the mid-twentieth century that doesn’t fit dominant tropes of resistance in postcolonial and feminist literary critiques have largely been untranslated undiscussed. Especially neglected are narratives native queerness, stories transgressive desire sexual alterity. In this essay, I explore Yamini’s complex Chudamani Raghavan’s eponymous novella its potential to compli...