AfricaBib 
bibliographic database
| Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
 Periodical article |
 Leiden University catalogue |
 WorldCat |
| Title: | Yao origins |
| Author: | Price, T. |
| Year: | 1964 |
| Periodical: | The Nyasaland Journal |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 11-16 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Malawi |
| Subjects: | history ethnic groups Yao |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/29545968 |
| Abstract: | The usefull account of the southern or Nyasaland view of the pre-European Yao, drawn from the papers of the late W.H.J. Rangeley, and published in Nyasaland Journal, January 1965, includes a speculation or two which must be checked against other evidence. The author of the oresent article, drawing on evidence from authorities as Burton, Sir John Gray, Livinstone, Harald von Siccard, Scott, Sanderson, notes that it would be rash to accept the simple conclusion that the Yao are of recent origin at an inland hill, and to see their present distribution as the result of a single dispersion from that one centre in the early 19th century. The connection between the group-name Hiao and the place name Yao is far from established and may be mere coindidence. The notorious divisions within the Yao-speaking community were not family quarrels but the conflicts of converging peoples of different backgrounds. The Yao language was the victor in a clash of various tongues imported into a border land between Nyanja and Kamua, because it served the most open trade route back to Kilwa. |
