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  title info:
    title: Archaeology and oral tradition in Malawi
    sub title: origins and early history of the Chewa
  name:
    name part: Juwayeyi, Yusuf
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Chewa are the largest ethnic group in Malawi, representing a third of the population of approximately 19 million, and their language, Chichewa, is Malawi's national language. Yet the last book on the history of this group was published in 1944, and was based on oral history, or tradition. As with much African history, oral history started to be recorded only in the late nineteenth century. This is the first book to use not only oral history, but also documents written by early Portuguese explorers, traders and government officials, as well as archaeology, to piece together the early history of the Chewa. The author is an archaeologist, who discovered the first major Chewa settlement, Mankhamba, near the southern part of Lake Malawi. His excavations have enabled a more scientific chronology of the migrations of the Chewa into what is today Malawi and have provided physical proof of their early history as well as their material and spiritual culture and way of life. Professor Yusuf Juwayeyi has written and documented a very readable history and description of archaeology, which reveals the value of combining oral tradition together with archaeology to arrive at a more accurate picture of the history of a pre-literate society. This book will be of value not only to historians, archaeologists and anthropologists, but also the general reader interested in African history.
  note: Yusuf M. Juwayeyi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-mw---
  subject:
    topic: Chewa (African people)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Chewa (African people)
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Oral history
    geographic: Malawi
  subject:
    topic: Oral tradition
    geographic: Malawi
  classification: DT3192.C54 J89 2020
  classification: 968.97/004963918
  identifier: 1847012531
  identifier: 9781847012531
  identifier: 184701254X
  identifier: 9781847012548
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 191110
    record change date: 20200814155413.0
    record identifier: in00004166786