The Urban History of a Rural Place: Swahili Archaeology on Pemba Island, Tanzania, 700-1500 AD

[...] those that do exist suggest a different history in which Pemba was a core area of the Swahili coast in the late first millennium and early second millennium AD, when Swahili polities controlled the southwestern rim of the Indian Ocean trade system.1 Al-Mas'udi, for example, wrote of his v...

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Vydané v:	The International journal of African historical studies Ročník 42; číslo 3; s. 433 - 455
Hlavní autori:	LaViolette, Adria, Fleisher, Jeffrey
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	New York Boston University African Studies Center 01.01.2009 Boston University
Predmet:	13th century 16th century African studies Archaeological excavation Archaeological surveys Archaeology Architecture Coasts Elites Excavations Farmers History Island settlements Islands Marginality Middle Ages Millennium Mosques Portuguese language Religion Royalty Rural areas Rural communities Social archaeology Swahili language Tanzania Theme Towns Urban areas Urban history Visitors Zanzibar Africa Tanzania
ISSN:	0361-7882, 2326-3016
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Shrnutí:	[...] those that do exist suggest a different history in which Pemba was a core area of the Swahili coast in the late first millennium and early second millennium AD, when Swahili polities controlled the southwestern rim of the Indian Ocean trade system.1 Al-Mas'udi, for example, wrote of his visit in 916 to an island he called Kanbalu (also Qanbalu), believed by some scholars to be Pemba.2 On this visit, he may have stopped at the now-ruined town of Ras Mkumbuu, which he described as having a Muslim population and a royal family. The island's pre-1500 history as conveyed in such accounts indeed inspired the earliest professional archaeology on the island, by James Kirkman in the 1950s.5 Kirkman sought to connect the site of Ras Mkumbuu with Kanbalu, but failed to locate levels earlier than the thirteenth century in the stone-built areas he investigated.6 Pemba's towns were also noted by late fifteenth-, early sixteenth-century Portuguese visitors, who mention five sultanates or kingdoms there at a time when only one ruler was known in Zanzibar.7 But the Portuguese characterizations of Pemba's history, although mentioning the presence of towns, and elites, underscore the island's potential to provide food to the mainland, and it is this latter theme that foreshadows its future marginalization.
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ISSN:	0361-7882 2326-3016