Etudes Gulmance (Haute-Volta). Phonologie, Classes Nominales, Lexiques (Bibliotheque De La Selaf, v.75)
by B. Surugue
Faulkner's authoritative English translation of Middle Kingdom coffin texts is essential for all Egyptologists. This new edition reprints his whole work in one volume. Filling the gap between the `Pyramid' texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead, these writings were intended to supply the deceased with the speeches he would need to achieve a secure and important position in the next world. As such they supply valuable insights into Egyptian beliefs and mortuary practices. Concise textu...
The Book in Africa (New Directions in Book History)
This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet communications.
This is a technical study of Middle Egyptian grammar aimed at enhancing our understanding of tense, mood and aspect; a difficult area of research because, as the author notes, 'we have no informants, since the discovered mummies have so far stubbornly refused to speak and are not expected to change their minds in the future'.
Fit every pocket -- and every traveler's need for a compact, easy-to-use, and dependable reference source.Part language instructor, part tour guide, the world-renowned Berlitz Phrase Book series has been the ideal companion guide for millions of travelers worldwide. Providing a wealth of essential information and practical tips, this popular series, redesigned and with updated phrases and expressions and over 2,300 words covering just about any situation a traveler is likely to encounter, remain...
Understanding Everyday Sesotho
This easy-to-use reference book teaches basic conversational Sesotho.
African Language Literature in the Political Context of the 1990's (Bayreuth African Studies, #56)
With stunning new design and layout and the most up-to-date travel information, the market's most indispensable phrasebook and dictionary has been reinvented for ereaders and is better than ever. Gem Afrikaans will give you the right word at the right time - every time. In all of the most common travel situations, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook is a travel essential, and now with the completely re-designed Co...
The Two Faces of Graeco-Roman Egypt (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, #30)
Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
by K. Samuel and Kameelah L Martin
This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore.
This illuminating study of European women's narratives in colonial Algeria and Kenya argues that nostalgia was not a post-colonial phenomenon but was embedded in the colonial period. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the distinction between imperial nostalgia, associated with the loss of power that results from the loss of empire, and colonial nostalgia, associated with loss of socio-cultural standing in other words, loss of a certain way of life. This distinction helps to make women's discursive r...
Catalogue of Coordinates and Satellites of the Middle Egyptian Verb
by Leo Depuydt
Essay on Dr. Young's and M. Champollion's Phonetic System of Hieroglyphics
by Henry Salt