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38 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,442 Global Maritime and Colonial Histories papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Future research should explore whether similar multi- stage systems exist in other societies where 388 | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

    Infanticide and the Curse They Carry: Global History and the Limits of Missionary Rescue in East Africa · 2026 · DOI

  • The practical significance of the article lies in the fact that the introduction into scientific circulation of the study of data on Khwarazm and Transoxiana in the work “Taqwim al-Buldan” will allow better understanding the medieval Islamic scholars of the Central Asian region, and, in this regard, the article can be used for further research of this problem.

    “Taqwim al-Buldan” by Abu al-Fida as a Source on Medieval Geography of Khwarazm and Transoxiana · 2025 · DOI

  • Essentially, Frydman’s position suggests that much as Carpentier and others like him such as Jacques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén, and Luis Palés Matos unwittingly consolidate the stereotyping of African diaspora cultures as limited to the mere spectacle: music, dance, and spirituality which they personify as a rejection of European cultural imperialism.

    Sounding the Break African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature by Jason Frydman · 2015 · DOI

  • Until then, Kenya had not benefited to the same extent as other African countries from Chinese investment in infrastructure, which had been limited to a tender to refurbish Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in 2006, a contract to the China Overseas Engineering Group to expand Kisumu airport in 2008, and the granting of exploration rights in some of northern Kenya's oil blocks.

    Towards a minor global architecture at Lamu, Kenya · 2013 · DOI

  • Not all the papers presented at the conference have made it into this volume, nor are the papers published here necessarily representative of the issues that the conference’s deliberations explored, but they are a distinct and important voice, emerging out of a region where cultural and intellectual traditions remain understudied.

    Introduction to Special Issue: Eastern African Literatures and Cultures · 2011 · DOI

  • This article focuses specifically on the kind of depth offered by considering other forms of understanding than conceptual forms and that, through cinematographic anthropology, open up an under-explored field that is very fruitful in analyzing various topics related to this discipline, such as the processes of constructing identity and memory.

    Meaning and Sense in Images and Texts · 2010 · DOI

  • Notwithstanding our dialectological purpose, namely documentation of the largely understudied language of Mazandaran within the long-standing tradition of Iranian philology, the article may also provide raw material for the anthropologist, sociologist, and historian, as it relays an unrecorded tradition just before its total disappearance.

    The Last <i>Gālesh</i> Herdsman: Ethno-linguistic Materials from South Caspian Rainforests · 2008 · DOI

  • As Knappert (1979: 1) notes: learned treatises on Swahili society in centuries and a series of erudite essays critically assessing the works of the authors [---] is lacking.

    Aspects of Autobiography in the Classical Swahili Poetry: Problems of Identity of Authorship · 2001 · DOI

  • His impetus for undertaking this journey remains unclear to his biographers; certainly he was an artist in crisis, exhausted by the production of The Notebooks ofMalte Laurids Brigge, but why North Africa, why the Orient? Perhaps he was inspired by his wife Clara's florid letters from her 1907 trip to Egypt, Rodin's enthusiasm for the translation of the Arabian Nights, or even by the nineteenth-century pilgrimages of Flaubert and Nerval in search of creative rejuvenation in the Orient.

    Rilke and Orientalism: Another Kind of Zoo Story · 1996 · DOI

  • Though Francophile Senghor (076), target of Africa's most vocal language champion, Ngfgi wa Thiong'o, made a little known plea for the use of African languages in 1937 (050) and Guinea's Sekou Toure attempted to revive them briefly, and though Francophone novelist Ousmane Sembene has made…

    Choice of language and African literature: a bibliographic essay · 1992

  • The present evidence on the importance of ancestor beliefs and rituals in relation to magic is inconclusive, and one certainly cannot conclude with the same certainty as that of earlier writers that magic shows more vitality and adaptability than ancestor beliefs and rituals.

    Ancestor beliefs and rituals among urban Africans · 1974 · DOI

  • This island presents to the commercial adventurer such an opportunity as is scarcely to be found elsewhere in the world, not alone from the valuable products of the land itself, but from the possession of so magnificent a harbour for shipping, whence could be extended the ramifications of a trade on a large scale throughout the whole great Caroline Archipelago.

    The beginnings of foreign contact with Truk · 1973 · DOI

  • Some features associated with the system of grouping into wards still remain to be considered; but until I have been able to carry my investigations into other Tswana tribes the problems they suggest cannot be adequately dealt with. 13 All these characteristics are lacking in the ward.

    The social structure of the Tswana ward · 1972 · DOI

  • In addition to the provision of medical treatment under the national public health administration, the social security institution, as part of its health and social welfare activity, provides, through specialised hospitals abroad, the treatment necessitated by the condition of any of its insured persons when technical or other means are lacking.

    OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING AFRICA · 1969 · DOI

  • Despite existing research on cultural interpretations of natural phenomena, little is known about how animal calls and sightings specifically predict omens within the Iraqw community in Tanzania.

    Decoding Omens from Animal Calls and Sightings: An Ethnozoolinguistic Study among the Iraqw of Tanzania · 2025 · DOI

  • Abstract: This article provides an overview of the numeral systems of Jarawan languages, an understudied group of languages spoken in Nigeria, and formerly in Cameroon.

    Jarawan Numerals: Implications for History and Internal Classification · 2022 · DOI

  • The objective of such work is not simply to fill in missing gaps in knowledge, but to raise epistemological and methodological questions about how we come to know.

    Still Unknown and Overlooked? Anthropologies of Childhood and Infancy in Southern Africa, 1995–2020 · 2021 · DOI

  • In collating this special issue in honour of a much-missed colleague, our purpose is to reflect upon some of Charles Jedrej's unique, if too often under-recognized, contributions to Africanist anth.

    Crossing Africa and Beyond: essays in honour of Marian Charles Jedrej (1943–2007) · 2016 · DOI

  • That both of these communities are the product of Indian oceanic circuits of exchange mobility will suggest the role that understudied minority communities had in forming port cities scattered across littoral Africa.

    Visuality and Diasporic Dynamism: Goans in Mozambique and Zanzibar · 2016 · DOI

  • The key ongoing contribution made by photographers of Asian descent, who are part of the South Asian diaspora that arrived in East Africa from the early nineteenth century onwards,1 has been especially under-studied.

    From the Studio to the Front-line: The Emergence, Development, and Impact of Asian Photographers in Colonial and Independent East Africa · 2015 · DOI

  • Abstract The way in which the history of colonialism might link up with the formation of postcolonial migrant identities remains insufficiently examined.

    What’s New About Muslim Ismaili Transnationalism? Comparing Business Practices in British East Africa, Colonial Mozambique and Contemporary Angola · 2013 · DOI

  • These revelations promise to fill some historiographic gaps in the literature on toponymic inscription in Africa in particular and urban history and planning in general.

    The Toponymic Inscription Problematic in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonial to Postcolonial Times · 2013 · DOI

  • Abstract This article explores a rather understudied feature of West African oral epics, namely its role as a channel for the transmission and popularization of Islamic religious knowledge.

    Popularizing Islamic Knowledge through Oral Epic: A Malian Bard in a Media Age · 2009 · DOI

  • As full source details and the content of the tale itself do not appear to be available at this point, the import of the reference must remain unclear until further research on the matter can be carried out.

    The Arabic Ghoul and its Western Transformation · 2009 · DOI

  • A few of the authors point out that the fit is not perfect, but the discrepancies, which should be an impetus for conceptual refinement, are rarely explored further.

    Customary Strangers: New Perspectives on Peripatetic Peoples in the Middle East, Africa and Asia · 2005

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