[First posted in AWOL 13 June 2014, updated 2 June 2015]
Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies
Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies
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 postcolonial 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.
We embrace a powerful alternative to the dominant paradigms of academic publishing. We believe in free access to information. Accordingly, we are proud to collaborate with DigitalCommons@Fairfield, an institutional repository of Fairfield University in Connecticut, USA, and with open-access publishing house punctum books. Thanks to these collaborations, every volume of Dotawo will be available both as a free online pdf and in online bookstores.
Current Volume: Volume 2 (2015)
From the Editors
We are proud to present the second volume of Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies. This journal offers a multi-disciplinary, diachronic view of all aspects of Nubian civilization. It brings to Nubian studies a new approach to scholarly knowledge: an open-access collaboration with DigitalCommons@Fairfield, an institutional repository of Fairfield University in Connecticut, usa, and publishing house punctum books.
The first two volumes of Dotawo have their origins in a Nubian language panel organized by Angelika Jakobi within the Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium held at the University of Cologne, May 22 to 24, 2013. Since many invited participants from Sudan were unable to get visas due to the shutdown of the German Embassy in Khartoum at that time, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation funded the organization of a second venue of specialists on modern Nubian languages. This so-called “Nubian Panel 2” was hosted by the Institute of African & Asian Studies at the University of Khartoum on September 18 and 19, 2013. This volume publishes the proceedings of that panel. We wish to extend our thanks both to the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and to Professor Abdelrahim Hamid Mugaddam, the then director of the Institute of African & Asian Studies, for their generous support.
Future volumes will address three more themes: 1) Nubian women; 2) Nubian place names; 3) and know-how and techniques in ancient Sudan. The calls for papers for the first two volumes may be found on the back of this volume. The third volume is already in preparation with the assistance of Marc Maillot of the Section française de la direction des antiquités du Soudan (sfdas), Department of Archeology. We welcome proposals for additional themed volumes, and invite individual submissions on any topic relevant to Nubian studies.Articles
Old Nubian Relative Clauses
Vincent van Gerven OeiThe Verbal Plural Marker in Nobiin (Nile Nubian)
Mohamed K. KhalilRelative Clauses in Andaandi (Nile Nubian)
Angelika Jakobi and El-Shafie El-GuzuuliThe Uses and Orthography of the Verb “Say” in Andaandi (Nile Nubian)
El-Shafie El-GuzuuliFocus Constructions in Kunuz Nubian
Ahmed-Sokarno Abdel-HafizThe Consonant System of Abu Jinuk (Kordofan Nubian)
Waleed AlshareefPossessor Ascension in Taglennaa (Kordofan Nubian)
Gumma Ibrahim GulfanAttributive Modifiers in Taglennaa (Kordofan Nubian)
Ali Ibrahim and Angelika JakobiKadaru-Kurtala Phonemes
Thomas Kuku Alaki and Russell NortonTabaq Kinship Terms
Khaleel IsmailAn Initial Report on Tabaq Knowledge and Proficiency
Khalifa Jabreldar KhalifaNumber Marking on Karko Nouns
Angelika Jakobi and Ahmed Hamdan
Volume 1 (2014)
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