ATrA 3. Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored
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CONTENTS / SOMMARIO
Micheli Ilaria
Micheli Ilaria
Howell Signe Lise
Micheli Ilaria
Mazzei Lorenza
Continuity and Innovation in the Ethiopian illustrated manuscripts: the case of Geometric Art
Elsaeed Essam, El Kabbani Shereen
Lane Paul J.
Incordino Ilaria
The analysis of determinatives of Egyptian words for aromatic products
Manzo Andrea
Bi3w Pwnt in the archaeological record. Preliminary results and perspective of research
Nappo Dario
Roman attempts to control Eastern Africa
Zazzaro Chiara
Maritime cultural traditions and transitions in the Red Sea
Baldi Marco
The king Amanikhareqerem and the Meroitic world: an account after the last discoveries
Elsaeed Essam, Khalifa Hoda
A Comparative Study of Modified Animal Horns in Ancient Egypt & Modern African Tribes
Adam Ahmed
The Archaeology and Heritage of the Sudanese Red Sea Region: Importance, findings, and challenges
Veiga Paula
Opium: was it used as a recreational drug in ancient Egypt?
Mous Maarten
Language and Identity among marginal people in East Africa
Tosco Mauro
On counting languages, diversity-wise
SavĂ Graziano
Crevatin Franco
Due note tipologiche sulla lingua bawlé (Kwa)
Lusini Gianfrancesco
The Costs of the Linguistic Transitions: Traces of Disappeared Languages in Ethiopia
Mauri Simone
Clause chaining across the Sahara
Wright Kelly E.
Avram Andrei
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The ATrA Workshop was held in Trieste (Italy) on May 24-26, 2016 with the aim of discussing the possible dimensions and varieties related to phenomena of cultural and linguistic transition in Africa.
Identity negotiation, ethnicity and cultural affiliation, cases of contact, creolization, integration, urbanization, climate or cultural changes, language and cultural switch, market exchanges and human migration have been put on the table, generating a very concrete and fruitful discussion.
The case studies collected in this miscellaneous book, give an idea of the multi-faceted dimensions of the debate, which ranges by necessity from anthropology to archaeology and from philology to linguistics, in a continuous alternation of disciplines, voices and styles.
Mechanisms of resilience and adaptation to new situations and contexts are described through an investigation which in many cases has the flavour of an intimate research, aimed above all at finding out the very essence of “being human”.
Ilaria Micheli, PhD in African Studies (2005) and expert in linguistic anthropology, is a researcher in the Department of Legal, Linguistic, Interpreting and Translation Studies at the University of Trieste. Since 2001 she has been working on the language and culture of the Kulango (Gur – Niger‑Congo) in Côte d’Ivoire, and more recently on the Ogiek (Kalenjin – Nilo‑Saharan) in Kenya. Material culture, oral tradition and traditional medicine are her main research areas. She teaches African Languages and Cultures at the University of Venice “Caʼ Foscari” as well as traditional and modern African literature and social anthropology at the University of Trieste.