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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Building Kimbundu: Language community reconsidered in West Central Africa, c. 1500--1750 Abstract: This project aims to contribute to a social history of the people who lived in the area of the present day province of Malanje, Angola from the beginning of the sixteenth century, through the early progression of Portuguese authority in Angola and into the eighteenth century. The research integrates the examination of Kimbundu in its capacity as repository for historical evidence of social changes with documentary sources pertaining to the demographic and economic history of Angola. As the presumed geographic focal point for the contemporary western Akwaluanda dialect of Kimbundu, Luanda was in its origins a multi-lingual community reflecting the social consequences of changing regional economics, demographics and political power. The eastern Ambakista dialect developed around the area of Malanje, somewhat more removed from the metropole and the Atlantic Ocean dynamics, yet inextricably linked to innovations in the conceptualization and practice of power. The dissertation will document the history of the contemporary vernaculars of Kimbundu in their linguistic origins and influences, and examine them as contrasting contributions to the changing socioeconomics of Angola before the effective establishment of Portuguese colonial authority. |
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