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African Studies
African-American Studies
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Author_Derek Nurse
Author_Thomas Spear
Category=CFF
Category=NHH
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- ISBN 9780812212075
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1985
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."-International Journal of African Historical Studies
Derek Nurse is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Thomas Spear is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
