131-16 African Studies, Pawlak,Rubinkowska,Will.indd

131-16 African Studies, Pawlak,Rubinkowska,Will.indd

African Studies
Forging New Perspectives and Directions
edited by
Nina Pawlak, Hanna Rubinkowska-Anioł, Izabela Will
WARSAW 2016
Published with the kind support of the Vice-Rector of the University of Warsaw
Reviewers:
Mustapha Ahmad Isa
Jarosław Różański
Cover design:
Agnieszka Miłaszewicz
English-language editing:
Miłosława Stępień
© Copyright by Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki, Wydział Orientalistyczny Uniwersytetu
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ISBN 978-83-8017-114-5
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Contents
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The boundaries of Africa in African studies
A D A M Ł U K A S Z E W I C Z , Egyptian archaeology ― a part of African studies? . . . . . . . .
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H A F I Z U M I Ƙ O Y A K A S A I and A L I Y U M U ’ A Z U , Hausa studies in the 21st century:
prospects and challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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E L Ż B I E TA B U D A K O W S K A , African studies at the cross-worlds of Portugal and West
Africa. The phenomena of Cape Verdean creolization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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J O A N N A M O R M U L , New institutionalism in research on dysfunctional states in subSaharan Africa: “institutional multiciplity” and the Luso-African example . . . . . . .
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E WA W O Ł K -S O R E , “Among Manuscripts and Men of Ethiopia”. Stefan Strelcyn’s
quest for African studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Different perspectives of studies on languages
S E R G I O B A L D I and R U D O L F L E G E R , What are plants good for? Plant names and
related superstitions among the Kupto people (Northern Nigeria) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I S A Y U S U F C H A M O , Language and identity in Africa: the use of place names as part
of a person’s name in Hausa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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S E Y N I M O U M O U N I , Écriture et société en Afrique au
siècle d’après quelques
documents ajami haoussa du Nigeria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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N I N A P AW L A K , Between oral and written tradition: the concept of ‘truth’ (gaskiya)
in Hausa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I Z A B E L A R O M A Ń C Z U K , Swahili women’s traditional creative writing . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I Z A B E L A W I L L , To what extent do African studies refocus our understanding of gestures?
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Contents
The question of sources
C H R I S T I N E C H A I L L O T , How to preserve the history of the oral traditional education
of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Ethiopia: qəne teachers in Wašära, Gonğ,
Sälalo and elsewhere in Goğğam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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A N E TA P AW Ł O W S K A , South African museums. Representation and identity. . . . . . . .
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R O B E RT P I Ę T E K , European institutions and patterns in Kongo in the 16th and 17th
centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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H A N N A R U B I N K O W S K A -A N I O Ł , The interpretation of Ethiopian cultural texts ―
the coronation of Haile Sillasie as a text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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B O G U S Ł AW R . Z A G Ó R S K I , Central African (Sudanic) Arabic toponomastics ―
the special case of Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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J A N Z Á H O Ř Í K , Czech sources on the modern and contemporary history of Africa
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