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Title: | Swahili studies in Japan |
Author: | Hino, Shun'ya |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | African Urban Studies (Tokyo) |
Volume: | 2 |
Pages: | 77-138 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Japan East Africa |
Subjects: | African studies Swahili Swahili language |
Abstract: | Survey of the development of studies on Swahili culture, society and history in Japan. The study of Swahili culture and society developed in Japan in the early 1960s. It is to a large extent based on material collected in the course of long-term fieldwork carried out within a regional anthropological framework by members of the Kyoto University African Scientific Expedition (KUASE) in Mangola, northern Tanzania, and Ujiji, western Tanzania, at the periphery of the Swahili area. Research interests were based on the comparative study of the inland and coastal Swahili region and subsequently extended to include the problem of the Swahilization of East African regional societies. The study of Swahili history in Japan is of more recent date. It too is based predominantly on material collected in the field. It approaches Swahili history from a wider comparative perspective, placing it in the context of the Indian Ocean and the limitrophe countries of India, Saudi Arabia and the East African coast. Both sociocultural and historical studies have benefitted from systematic interdisciplinary research projects and cooperation between, amongst others, the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) at Tokyo, and the National Museum of Ethnology at Osaka. Bibliogr. (p. 139-158), notes, ref. |