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| Title: | Swahili and Fulbe: frontier world of Islam in Africa |
| Author: | Hino, Shun'ya |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 349 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African kingdoms collection |
| City of publisher: | Nagoya |
| Publisher: | Comparative Studies in Social and Human Sciences, Nagoya University |
| Geographic terms: | East Africa Cameroon Sudan Tanzania |
| Subjects: | Fulani Swahili anthropology |
| Abstract: | This volume contains most of the works by Professor Shyn'ya Hino written in English. Hino belongs to the first generation of Japanese Africanist anthropologists. His studies are mainly situated in the frontier zones of Islam, where Islam and African traditional world encounter each other: the Swahili region of East Africa, the Adamawa region of Cameroon and the Sudan. The publication is divided into two parts: Part I: Swahili Studies 1968-1996 and part 2: Fulbe studies 1984-1992. Contributions: Social stratification of a Swahili town; The costume culture of the Swahili people; Neighborhood groups in African urban society: social relations and Swahili people of Ujiji, a small town of Tanzania, East Africa; Territorial structure of the Swahili concept and social function of the Swahili group; Swahilization, Westernization and nationalization in Tanzania: a preliminary report on Swahili research; Swahili studies in Japan; Social changes of the Swahili urban society in Tanzania: a case study of Ujiji, 1964-1991; Social relation between towns and villages in Adamawa regional society; Pilgrimage and migration of the West African Muslims: a case study of the Fellata people in the Sudan; Fulbe people in African urban society: a comparative study of Cameroon and the Sudan. [ASC Leiden abstract] |