Dotawo: a Journal of Nubian Studies

Download or read book Dotawo: a Journal of Nubian Studies written by Dotawo Journal and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nubian studies needs a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and critical and theoretical approaches present in post-colonial and African studies. The journal Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies brings these disparate fields together within the same fold, opening a cross-cultural and diachronic field where divergent approaches meet on common soil. Dotawo gives a common home to the past, present, and future of one of the richest areas of research in African studies. It offers a crossroads where papyrus can meet internet, scribes meet critical thinkers, and the promises of growing nations meet the accomplishments of old kingdoms. This first volume of Dotawo is the outcome of a Nubian panel within the Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium held at the University of Cologne, May 22-4, 2013. Organized by Angelika Jakobi, the Nubian panel was attended both by specialists of the modern Nubian languages and scholars working on medieval Nubia and its languages, particularly Old Nubian. We are indebted to the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at Cologne for generously sponsoring the organization of the Nubian panel and the invitation of the participants.TABLE OF CONTENTS: Grzegorz Ochała // Multilingualism in Christian Nubia: Qualitative and Quantitative ApproachesAlexandros Tsakos // The Liber Institutionis Michælis in Medieval NubiaBirgit Hellwig & Gertrud Schneider-Blum // Tabaq: In a State of FluxKerstin Weber & Petra Weschenfelder // Reflections on Old Nubian GrammarMarcus Jaeger //Coordination with goon and Bisyndetic =gon in Dongolawi and Kenzi Proverbs Angelika Jakobi & El-Shafie El-Guzuuli //Semantic Change and Heterosemy of Dongolawi ed Jade Comfort //Verbal Number in the Uncu Language (Kordofan Nubian)Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei //Remarks toward a Revised Grammar of Old Nubian Adam Łajtar //Old Nubian Texts from Gebel Adda in the Royal Ontario Museum Suzan Alamin //Noun Phrase Constructions in Nubian Languages: A Comparative Study Giovanni Ruffini //Idiom and Social Practice in Medieval Nubia