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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Title:: The Shungwaya Problem: Traditional History and Cultural Likeness in Bantu North-East Africa

Other person:: Prins, A. H. J.

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

The Shungwaya Problem Traditional History and Cultural Likeness in Bantu North-East Africa A. H. J. Prins Contents ; Introduction 1. Ethnohistory and the Trend of Traditional Migrations 2. Cultural Similarity and Cultural Distance 3. Foreign Cultural Material Introduction This paper deals with the problem of the historical and cultural interrelat edness of the so-called Bantu peoples of N.-E. Africa, and their hypothesized connections with Shungwaya, the legendary city the ruins of which await excavation in the desolate wastelands of the South Somali coast. In the first section the subject is treated as ethno-history, whereas in the second half of the paper the focus is on culture-history. The latter facilitates cooperation between anthropologists and archeologists, whose “peoples” are dead, but whose “cultures” can be rediscovered. The concept of "people” or “tribe” is an evasive one anyway, even if we can catch a community in an observed or observable series of repetitive and for them characteristic events in what has been called an “ethnographic present”. In diachronic research over a fairly long period it seems safer, therefore, to deal with the study of culture. If we hear e. g. from Portuguese records, that the Rabai were in the Mombasa hinterland in the early seventeenth century x , we know nothing but the name. The ethnonyme, however, may well cover an ethnic and cultural entity so very different from Paper read at the Harvard University Congress on “East Africa and the Orient , held in Nairobi, April, 1967. 1 According to Bocarro 1876; 237-243, as related in Strandes 1899: 194.

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