Unwritten Testimonies

WZNOWIENIE WYDAWNICZE – ELEKTRONICZNE

Unwritten Testimonies of the African Past. Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Ojrzanów n. Warsaw on 07-08 November 1989 ed. by S. Piłaszewicz and E. Rzewuski, (Orientalia Varsoviensia 2), Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 1991.

ISSN 0860-5785; ISBN 83-230-0262-2

Strona tytułowa/Title page PDF

C O N T E N T S:

Contents and Participants PDF

Preface PDF

Opening address PDF

PART I - LINGUISTIC TESTIMONIES PDF

1. Zygmunt FRAJZYNGIER & Wendy C. ROSS  Methodological Issues in Applying Linguistics to the Study of Prehistory PDF

2. Philip J. JAGGAR   Some "Unexpected" Form-Meaning Correspondences between Hausa (West Chadic-A) and Guruntum (gurdun) (West Chadic-B) -   how do we explain them? PDF

3. Herrmann JUNGRAITHMAYR  Centre and Periphery: Chadic Linguistic Evidence and its Possible Historical Significance PDF

4. Hans G. MUKAROVSKY  Remarks on Some Euroafrican and Persian Loan-words in African Languages PDF

5. Natalia V. OKHOTINA  One Remark upon Bantu Plosive /k/ PDF

6. Nina PAWLAK  Historical Inferences to be Drawn from Hausa Names of Plants PDF

7. Thilo C. SCHADEBERG  Historical Inferences from Swahili Etymologies PDF

8. Andrzej ZABORSKI  Ethiopian Language Subareas PDF

PART  II   - LOCAL TRADITIONS PDF

9. Donald CRUMMEY & Shumet SISHAGNE, Daniel AYANA  Oral Tradition in a Literate Culture: The Case of Christian Ethiopia PDF

10. Bronisław NOWAK  Jan Czekanowski and his Version of Oral Traditions of the Interlacustrine Region Peoples PDF

11. Stanisław PIŁASZEWICZ  On the Veracity of Oral Tradition as a Historical Source: - the Case of Samori Ture PDF

12. Renate RICHTER  Proverbs - an Old Literary Tradition in Ethiopia PDF

13. Eugeniusz RZEWUSKI  Origins of the Tungi Sultanate (Northem Mozambique) in the Light of Local Traditions PDF

14. Grzegorz WALIŃSKI  The Image of the Ruler as Presented in the Tradition about Sunjata PDF

REFERENCJE ARTYKUŁÓW DO CYTOWANIA/REFERENCES OF THE ARTICLES  PDF