Research Catalog

Title

East Africa and the Orient : cultural syntheses in pre-colonial times / edited by H. Neville Chittick and Robert I. Rotberg.

Publication

New York : Africana Pub. Co., 1975.

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Additional Authors

• Chittick, H. Neville
• Rotberg, Robert I.
• Harvard University. Center for International Affairs
• British Institute in Eastern Africa
• University of Nairobi

Description

viii, 343 p. : maps; 22 cm.

Summary

Papers presented a a conference on pre-colonial history in East Africa held in Kenya in 1967, and sponsored by the Harvard University Center for International Affairs, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and the University of Nairobi.

Subject

• To 1886
• Cultural relations
• Africa, East > History > To 1886 > Congresses
• Africa, East > Relations > Indian Ocean Region > Congresses
• Indian Ocean Region > Relations > Africa, East > Congresses
• Africa, East > Relations > Asia > Congresses
• Asia > Relations > Africa, East > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• Papers presented at a conference on pre-colonial history in East Africa held in Kenya in 1967, and sponsored by the Harvard University Center for International Affairs, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and the University of Nairobi.
• Includes index.
• LC call no. DT432.E18.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 291-305.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Peopling of the East African coast / H. Neville Chittick -- Peopling of the Horn of Africa / Vinigi L. Grottanelli -- Analecta Sino-Africana recensa / Paul Wheatley -- Arab geographers and the East African coast / J. Spencer Trimingham -- Dating and the significance of the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea / Gervase Mathew -- Austronesian contributions to the culture of Madagascar : some archaeological problems / Pierre Verin -- Problem of Malagasy origins / Aidan Southall -- Connections between the Lacustrine peoples and the coast / Merrick Posnansky -- Some conclusions from archaeological excavations on the coast of Kenya 1948-1966 / James Kirkman -- Origin and spread of some domestic food plants of Eastern Africa / M.D. Gwynne -- Appendix 1 : Notes on Arabic aources of information on East Africa / J. Spencer Trimingham -- Appendix 2 : Notes on Chinese texts containing references to East Africa / Paul Wheatley.

ISBN

0841901422

LCCN

^^^73089568^//r854

OCLC

• 1174314
• SCSB-9928517

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library