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Gather Your Ancestors: Gender, Language, and Belonging in Southeast Africa

by Raevin Jimenez

Language, gender, and social change in southeastern Africa

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Language, gender, and social change in southeastern Africa

Raevin Jimenez examines a millennium of migration and cultural contact in southeasternmost Africa through the history of its speech communities. The book takes a historical-linguistics approach, focusing on Nguni speakers and gendered practices such as initiation, marriage, and avoidant speech. These subjects connect language to the region’s broader histories of interaction and social development. The supplied description ends mid-sentence while introducing avoidant speech, so it does not provide further detail about the book’s scope or conclusions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history and languages of southeastern Africa.
  • Those exploring how gendered social practices relate to language and cultural change.
  • Readers seeking a historical-linguistics approach to migration and contact between communities.

Themes

Historical linguisticsMigration and cultural contactGendered social practicesLanguage and belonging

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Book overview

Historically, southeasternmost Africa has been home to a large variety of speech communities, including Nguni, East Bantu, Khoi, and San--the legacy of a long and complicated history of migration, interaction, assimilation, and disaggregation between many peoples. With detailed, careful analysis, Raevin Jimenez guides readers through a thousand years of human movement, cultural contact, and social development in this region. Taking a historical linguistics approach, she sheds new light on this history by focusing on Nguni speakers' use of gendered practices--including initiation, marriage, and avoidant speech known as hl

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