Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo 1880-1938

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University of California Press, Aug 16, 1991 - Literary Criticism - 212 pages
In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. The author's principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industrial, artisanal, and artistic. When it was first formulated, the aim of my project was to describe what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use. 
 

Contents

Introduction
1
expeditions and campaigns
13
2 Questions and queries
42
colonization and language
70
4 Labor and language in Katanga
92
pidginization in Katanga
112
illusions of colonial power
135
Notes
163
Bibliography
188
Index
201
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Johannes Fabian is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and author of Time and the Other and Power and Performance.

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