Khoseni (literally, the place of the Khosa) recalled the precolonial political grandeur of the Khosa clan. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
11According to this first British account, the prices of fruit and nuts harvested locally appear quite accessible for everyday consumers in precolonial Kabul. From Wordnik.com. [Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier] Reference
26 Admittedly, "precolonial" imperfectly describes Europe, but it is equally uncomfortable for Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
The colonial and precolonial collided in the Cedarberg. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
Literature in Swahili and in Hausa, for example, have deep precolonial roots. From Wordnik.com. [I. Africa, 1941-2000] Reference
Inter-group trade in precolonial Africa provides evidence for this mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [The Austrian Economists:] Reference
There are few existing written records of its precolonial history and culture. From Wordnik.com. [Going for the Gold] Reference
But unlike in the precolonial period, literacy is nearly as high now for women. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on Burma] Reference
The right wall of the mural depicts the mythical and precolonial past of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Diego Rivera's monumental stairway mural in Mexico's National Palace, Mexico City, D.F. (1)] Reference
Political power in precolonial Africa was often expressed in terms of control over people and resources. From Wordnik.com. [3. Historical Trends, 1000-1500] Reference
Descended from the Seixas family of precolonial America, Meyer educated herself during her unstable childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Information for Annie Nathan Meyer] Reference
But among the Kalenjin, who claim ancestral, precolonial rights to the area, resentment against the Kikuyu runs deep. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Valley of Death] Reference
Typically, Magude makes a fleeting appearance in scholarly histories of precolonial and colonial southern Mozambique. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
There is, understandably, evidence of concentrated human activity along the river in both precolonial and colonial eras. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
Present-day Facazisse sits near the center of the powerful precolonial chiefdom of Magudzu Khosa, for whom the district was named. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
The effect was his persistent longing for the reestablishment of precolonial concord, the renaissance of the golden age of Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson Mandela and the Rainbow of Culture] Reference
It is clear, the document says, that the institution of traditional leadership cannot be restored to its "pristine precolonial form". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Participating in it sharpens the women's perceptions of patriarchal oppression, whether rooted in colonial or in precolonial origins. From Wordnik.com. [Triumph's Part 5 - Looking Forward] Reference
National Park demonstrates that South Africa's precolonial inhabitants managed sophisticated city states long before the arrival of white colonists. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Each has examined the stone-built landscape and posited a different scenario to explain the ascendancy of southern Africa's greatest precolonial city. From Wordnik.com. [Riddle of Great Zimbabwe] Reference
In the precolonial literature, Magude's status is both crucial and slightly mysterious in each of the three areas of inquiry that have dominated the field so far. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
The term 'negara' in Professor Geertz's title refers to the pattern of supreme political authority that prevailed over much of Southeast Asia in the precolonial period. From Wordnik.com. [The World as a Stage] Reference
Some see them as a throwback to simpler precolonial times of rural tranquility and open borders between Thailand and its neighbors, says Mr. Farrelly, the doctoral student at Oxford. From Wordnik.com. [A Written Thread] Reference
For the past three decades South African children had been fed an inaccurate, misleading and warped version of precolonial history, the chairman of the SA Association of Archaeologists, Dr. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
An important example he does cite, however, is the establishment of the waqf, or Islamic trust, which, beginning in medieval times, was one of the most important institutions of the precolonial era. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists] Reference
In addition to containing rich deposits of minerals, North and South Kivu have, since the precolonial era, been subject to large waves of migration by people from Rwanda, including both Hutus and Tutsis. From Wordnik.com. [Kagame's Hidden War in the Congo] Reference
During the celebrated reign of Le Thanh-tông (b. 1442), a wide range of reform measures in the realms of law, landholding, and government set the form of bureaucratic rule for all subsequent, precolonial rule. From Wordnik.com. [1257-58] Reference
Filipino intellectuals in Spain later established the Propaganda Movement, which sought political representation in the Spanish Cortes and attempted to promote awareness of Tagalog culture and precolonial history. From Wordnik.com. [1863] Reference
McLynn describes the curanderos, practitioners in herbal remedies who date from precolonial times, as Chaucer's Pardoner, an obscure reference to a personage from the Canterbury Tales who carried around strange potions. From Wordnik.com. [Part 1: Mexico at the Turn of the Century] Reference
It was true that Manon was still a precolonial planet only as a technicality. From Wordnik.com. [Legacy] Reference
The missions 'anti-slavery commitment dictated British policies in Shire lands in the precolonial period. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
I tried to post last night an overview combining books I know of about precolonial history, and it was deleted. From Wordnik.com. [WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook] Reference
Through the kgotla, a community gathering and meeting place whereby decisions are arrived at by consensus, Botswana has practiced democracy since precolonial times. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
A balangay is a precolonial boat. From Wordnik.com. [My Sinchew -] Reference
The precolonial period. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
· The precolonial period. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
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