Anthropos: Anthropos, 67.1972

Anthropos, 67.1972

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Structure Type:: Journal

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

Persistent identifier:: BV043334262

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711766

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711766

Persistent identifier:: 1510232343021

Title:: Anthropos, 67.1972

Year of Publication:: 1972

Call Number:: LA 1118

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Issue

Title:: Bd. 67, 1972, Heft 1-2

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Article

Title:: The Origins of the "Sudanic" Civilization

Other person:: Meyerowitz, Eva L. R.

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

The Origins of the “Sudanic” Civilization Eva L. R. Meyerowitz Contents 1. Fezzan 2. Eastern Sahara 3. Lake Chad Region 4. Middle Niger 5. Niger Bend Region 6. Ancient Ghana 7. Summary “Thus, while no definite or precise account of the origins of the ‘Sudanic’ civilization can yet be given, there is nevertheless enough circumstancial evidence of the various influences at work in the Meroitic and immediately post-Meroitic Sudan to account for most of the elements in the strange amalgam of Egyptian and southwest Asian ideas and influences which were to penetrate, with obvious modifications and attenuations, through so much of the heart of Africa. Essentially the Sudanic state was a parasitic growth fasten ing itself upon the economic base of pre-existing agricultural societies. To these societies it attributed certain new techniques, notably in the field of mining, metallurgy and trade." (Oliver and Face 1969: 51) the * s an attempt to show how the civilization which gave birth to first ^ U< ^ arac ” was disused from the Upper Nile Valley (Meroe) during the ^ ’ 0r second, century A. D. to the eastern Sahara, the Fezzan and Maure- Sah^ ^ ^ a ^ er ^ a ^ °f seventh century from the Fezzan and the eastern sh la fhc Lake Chad basin, the Middle Niger and the Niger bend; and pr after A. D. 1000 from the Niger bend to regions south of it and the (2 r ^f> er country. The people responsible for this diffusion were the Zagha exisf aWa ) w ^° established themselves as a ruling aristocracy in either already g0ve ^ kingdoms or on pre-existing agricultural societies which lacked central r urnent. They were matrilineals like the Ancient Egyptians and Eastern ^ nt hropos 67. 1972 11

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