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208 pp.
5.5" x 8.25"

ISBN-13:
9780199342457

Copyright Year:
2018

Imprint: OUP US

Bantu Africa

3500 BCE to Present

Catherine Cymone Fourshey, Rhonda M. Gonzales and Christine Saidi

Series : African World Histories

Combining history, archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics, Bantu Africa, synthesizes the most current scholarship on one of the most important cultural zones in world history, an area larger than the United States, and whose traditions span several thousands of years. It examines four important, interconnected themes.The authors show how Bantu cultural ideas continue to shape modern realities in new contexts. By examining the cultural, political, religous, economic, and social issues in the Bantu world, Bantu Africa gives students an understanding of the long-term history of an immense cultural zone. The text also addresses the types over the longue durée, of social relationships Bantu-speaking people had with people of distinct linguistic and cultural traditions; the kinds of innovations that came out of those cross-cultural interactions; the tactics they used to negotiate societal tensions; the ways gender and seniority dynamics influenced societal institutions; and the extent to which Bantu-speaking people shaped Atlantic and Indian Ocean History.

Readership : This text is for one-semester survey courses of African history as well as the first half (pre-history to 1800) of two semester survey courses of African history.

Reviews

"A unique treatment and potential life-saver for instructors in all these courses - and also in introductions to African-American history, since more than half of the people enslaved came from these Bantu-speaking regions."
--Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia
"It is well organized and addresses the issues that I regard as the most significant when examining Bantu societies over thousands of years. This would be an innovative and much overdue work."
--Christ Ehret, UCLA

Maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Foreword
Introduction
1. Reconstructing Bantu Histories of Expansion
2. Historicizing Social Values and Structures Over the Longue Durée: Lineage, Belonging, and Heterarchy
3. Knowledge: Educating the Generations
4. Inventions of Technology and Art
5. Hospitality
Index

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Catherine Cymone Fourshey is the Associate Professor and John D. MacArthur Chair of History and International Relations at Bucknell University.

Rhonda Gonzalez is Associate Professor of History at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of Societies, Religion, and History: Tanzanians and the World They Created, 200 BCE to 1800 CE

Christine Saidi is an Associate Professor of History at Kutztown University. She is the author of Women's Authority and Society in Early East Central Africa

Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones

Special Features

This title is part of the African World History Series--brief affordable texts that bridge the gap between scholarship and the classroom.
Offers the first succinct treatment of a topic of world historical importance, but which is insufficiently covered by available texts.
Provides foundational knowledge for students and professors who have little or no background in African History prior to 1800.
Takes a cross disciplinary approach to studying the deep past.
Each chapter includes a "sidebar" that illustrates the ways early Bantu cultural ideas continue to shape modern realities in new contexts.
Each chapter concludes with a concise list of recommended readings.
Includes a Foreword by Patrick Manning.