Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi

Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi
Author: Yusuf M. Juwayeyi
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2020
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1847012531

First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society.

Bantu Philosophy

Bantu Philosophy
Author: Placide Tempels
Publisher:
Total Pages: 189
Release: 1969
Genre: Philosophy, Bantu
ISBN: 9781884631092

Myths and Legends of the Bantu

Myths and Legends of the Bantu
Author: Alice Werner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1968
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780714617350

First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Bantu Languages

The Bantu Languages
Author: Derek Nurse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 727
Release: 2006-03-21
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1135796831

Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.

African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo

African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo
Author: Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Publisher: Athelia Henrietta Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2001
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

"Life is fundamentally a process of perpetual and mutual communication; and to communicate is to emit and to receive waves and radiations (minika ye minienie). This process of, receiving and releasing or passing them on (tambula ye tambikisa) is the key to human beings game of survival. A person is perpetually bathed by radiations' weight, (zitu kia minienie). The weight (zitu/demo) of radiations may have a negative as well as positive impact on any tiny being, for example a person who represents the most vibrating: "kolo" (knot) of relationships." "The following expressions are very common among the Bantu, in general, and among the Kongo in particular, which prove to us the antiquity of these concepts in the African continent; Our businesses are waved/shaken; our health is waved/shaken; what we possess is waved/shaken; the communities are waved/shaken: Where are these (negative) waves coming from (Salu bieto bieti nikunwa; mavimpi nikunwa; biltuvwidi nikunwa; makanda nikunwa: Kwe kutukanga minika miami)?" "For the Bantu, a person lives and moves within an ocean of waves/radiations. One is sensitive or immune to them. To be sensitive to waves is to be able to react negatively or positively to those waves/forces. But to be immune to surrounding waves/forces, is to be less reactive to them or not at all. These differences account for varying degrees in the process of knowing/learning among individuals" --BOOK Cover.

The Coastal Tribes of the North-Eastern Bantu (Pokomo, Nyika, Teita)

The Coastal Tribes of the North-Eastern Bantu (Pokomo, Nyika, Teita)
Author: A. H. J. Prins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2017-02-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131531391X

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.

Bantu Africa

Bantu Africa
Author: Cymone Fourshey
Publisher: African World Histories
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199342457

Reconstructing Bantu histories of expansion -- Historicizing social values and structures over the longue durée: lineage, belonging, and heterarchy -- Knowledge: educating the generations -- Inventions of technology and art -- Hospitality