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Essays in Swahili geographical thought.: Group identity in Swahili chronicles.

In the last two decades, Swahili chronicles have been thoroughly re-evaluated by historians of the East African coast, and their usefulness as historical sources subject to serious doubt and criticism. Typical of this new attitude were the words of Gill Shepherd: `Such chronicles are less objective histories than annotated pedigrees of a single ruling lineage`. Given such a perspective, the question may be asked whether the chronicles are a suitable guide to the search for historical identities of coastal societies.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:11643
Date January 1996
CreatorsTolmacheva, Marina
ContributorsWashington State University, Universität zu Köln
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
SourceSwahili Forum; 3 (1996), S. 173-196
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-97242, qucosa:11674

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