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The customs of the Swahili people : the Desturi za Waswahili of Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari and other Swahili persons / edited and translated into English by J.W.T. Allen ; compiled in memoriam with notes and studies by various Makerere colleagues, African, American, Asian, British, and European.
- Text
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1981.
- 1981
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text JFE 82-178 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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The Swahilis in western historiography [microform] / by J. de V. Allen.
- Text
- [Nairobi?] : University of Nairobi, Dept. of History, 1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Microform Sc Micro R-3693 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Swahili culture and identity [microform] / by J. de V. Allen.
- Text
- [Nairobi?] : University of Nairobi, Dept. of History, 1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
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The Kiswahili greeting ritual [microform] / by Michael Sims.
- Text
- [Nairobi] : University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, 1973.
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Microform Sc Micro R-4088 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Swahili history revisited [microform] / by Jim Allen.
- Text
- [Nairobi] : University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, 1977.
- 1977
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Microform Sc Micro R-3968 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
An introduction to the music of Swahili women [microform] / by Carol A. Campbell.
- Text
- [Nairobi] : Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
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Swahili in East Africa [microform] : the territorial differenciation [sic] of the Swahili consciousness in East Africa / by Shunʼya Hino.
- Text
- [Nairobi] : Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, [1974]
- 1974
- 1 Item
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Tamaa mbele, na hadithi nyingine [microform] / kimetungwa na Alex Banzi.
- Text
- [Ndanda?] Tanzania : Benedictine Publication Ndanda-Peramiho, 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Microform Sc Micro R-4783 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Swahili-Arabic impact on Chewa society in Central Nkhota-Kota c.1840-1920 [microform] / by Sol. Liwewe.
- Text
- Zomba : University of Malawi, Chancellor College, History Dept., 1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
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The Swahili : reconstructing the history and language of an African society, 800-1500 / Derek Nurse and Thomas Spear.
- Text
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc E 85-296 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Social training strategies [microform] Swahili of old Town, Mombasa, Kenya / by Joshua J. Akong'a.
- Text
- [Nairobi] : Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, [1980].
- 1980
- 1 Item
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The way the world is : cultural processes and social relations among the Mombasa Swahili / Marc J. Swartz.
- Text
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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The world of the Swahili : an African mercantile civilization / John Middleton.
- Text
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc E 92-271 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Swahili bibliography of the East African coast / compiled by Richard Wilding.
- Text
- [Nairobi] : Lamu Society, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc F 92-315 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sitten und Gebräuche der Suaheli, nebst einem Anhang über Rechtsgewohnheiten der Suaheli / [gesammelt] von C. Velten.
- Text
- Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1903.
- 1903
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc 572.967-V (Velten, C. Sitten und Gebräuche) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text ZBD (Velten, C. Sitten und Gebräuche) Offsite Mzimu wa watu wa kale.
- Text
- Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Eagle Press (East African Literature Bureau) 1960.
- 1960
- 1 Item
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Black tales for white children.
- Text
- Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company [1914]
- 1914
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc 398-S (Stigand, C. Black tales for white children) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Märchen und Erzählungen der Suaheli, von C. Velten.
- Text
- Stuttgart, W. Spemann, 1898.
- 1898
- 1 Item
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Swahili tales, as told by natives of Zanzibar. With an English translation. A new edition revised by Alice Werner.
- Text
- London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1928.
- 1928
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc 496.3-S (Steere, E. Swahili tales. 1928) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Swahili origins : Swahili culture & the Shungwaya phenomenon / James de Vere Allen.
- Text
- London : J. Currey ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1993.
- 1993
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text JFD 93-6889 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc D 93-344 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Mombasa, the Swahili, and the making of the Mijikenda / Justin Willis.
- Text
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc D 93-869 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The shorefolk : aspects of the early development of Swahili communities / Richard Wilding.
- Text
- [Mombasa, Kenya? : s.n., 1987?]
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc F 93-271 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Anyone can dance [microform] : a survey and analysis of Swahili ngoma, past and present / by Marjorie Ann Franken.
- Text
- [1987]
- 1986-1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Microform *XMD-468 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Swahili : idiom and identity of an African people / Alamin M. Mazrui, Ibrahim Noor Shariff.
- Text
- Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1994.
- 1994
- 2 Items
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Les Swahili entre Afrique et Arabie / Françoise Le Guennec-Coppens et Pat Caplan (sous la direction de).
- Text
- Paris : Karthala, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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Continuity and autonomy in Swahili communities : inland influences and strategies of self-determination / edited by David Parkin.
- Text
- Wien : Institute für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie der Universität Wien ; London : School of Oriental and African Studies, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
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Feasts and riot : revelry, rebellion, and popular consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888 / Jonathon Glassman.
- Text
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; London : James Currey ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Dar es Salaam : Mkuki Na Nyota, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc E 95-305 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
L'Islam et les "Swahili" au Rwanda / José Hamim Kagabo.
- Text
- Paris : Editions de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, c1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
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Jando : the rite of circumcision and initiation in East African Islam / Lena Eile.
- Text
- Lund : Plus Ultra, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
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African voices, African lives : personal narratives from a Swahili village / Pat Caplan.
- Text
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc D 97-794 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Port cities and intruders : the Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the early modern era / Michael N. Pearson.
- Text
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998.
- 1998
- 2 Items
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Autorité et pouvoir chez les Swahili / Françoise Le Guennec-Coppens et David Parkin (éds)
- Text
- Paris : Karthala, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc E 99-61 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Nakulaumu wewe / na Frederick Mbabagu Titi.
- Text
- Tanzania : Benedictine Publications Ndanda - Peramiho, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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Taarab texts, gender, and Islam in an urban East African context : social transformations among the Waswahili of Mombasa, Kenya / by Mwenda G. Ntarangwi.
- Text
- 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
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At the boundaries of Dar-al-Islam : cities of the East African coast in the late Middle Ages / by Thomas Robert Gensheimer.
- Text
- 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
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Les nuits de Zanzibar : contes swahili : d'après le texte original recueilli par Edward Steere, 1870 / traduits et présentés par Henry Tourneux.
- Text
- Paris : Karthala, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc D 00-1969 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The rise and fall of Swahili states / Chapurukha M. Kusimba.
- Text
- Walnut Creek : AltaMira Press, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
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The rise and fall of Swahili states / Chapurukha M. Kusimba.
- Text
- Walnut Creek : AltaMira Press, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
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Tarabu [sound recording] : music from the Swahili of Kenia / Malika.
- Audio
- Mainz : Haus der Kulturen der Welt, p1996.
- 1996-1993
- 1 Item
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The Swahili : the social landscape of a mercantile society / Mark Horton and John Middleton.
- Text
- Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
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De Zanzibar à Kilwa : relations conflictuelles en pays swahili / Pascal Bacuez.
- Text
- Louvain : Peeters, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Sc E 02-1037 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Performing the nation : Swahili music and cultural politics in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew.
- Text
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.
- 2002
- 4 Items
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Rois, femmes et djinns : contes de l'île d'Anjouan-Comores / textes recueillis et traduits par Mohamed Ahmed-Chamanga ; illustrations de Florence Fabreque.
- Text
- Paris : Centre de recherche ocean indien-INALCO : Conseil international de la langue française : EDICEF, c1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text ReCAP 11-12365 Offsite African merchants of the Indian Ocean : Swahili of the East African Coast / John Middleton.
- Text
- Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
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Southern Africa and the Swahili world / edited by Felix Chami and Gilbert Pwiti.
- Text
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Dar es Salaam University Press, 2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
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Swahili culture / Jan Knappert.
- Text
- Lewiston, NY : E. Mellen Press, c2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
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Islam among the Swahili in East Africa / by Caleb Chul-Soo Kim.
- Text
- Nairobi, Kenya : Acton Publishers, 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
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Swahílisation [microform] : a cultural concept and its significance in Kenya today / by J. de V. Allen.
- Text
- Nairobi : University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
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Women in Taarab : the performing art in East Africa / Mohamed El-Mohammady Rizk.
- Text
- Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2007.
- 2007
- 1 Item
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Taarab iko wapi? : la poesia cantata taarab a Zanzibar in età contemporanea / Flavia Aiello Traore.
- Text
- Soveria Mannelli : Iride, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text JMD 07-754 Offsite
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