Short description:

This book highlights the legacies of Portuguese empire in postcolonial societies. Chapters span from early modern to contemporary and trace Portuguese legacies through language, literature, and cuisine. There are sections devoted to sociolinguistic and anthropological method, and studies on Thailand, Sri Lanka, Goa, Macau, Brazil and Angola.

Long description:

Global Portuguese results from conferences convened at the University of London School of Advanced Study to highlight legacies of Portuguese empire in postcolonial societies. Its chapters trace Portuguese legacies from the early modern to contemporary period through history, anthropology, language, literature, linguistics, and cuisine. There are sections devoted to sociolinguistic and anthropological method, and studies on Thailand, Sri Lanka, Goa, Macau, Brazil, Angola, Indonesia, S?o Tomé, and Zambesia.



Contributors are: Matthias R?hrig Assunç?o, Dorothée Boulanger, Silvia Figueiredo Brand?o, David Brookshaw, Paul Melo e Castro, Augusto Soares da Silva, Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Stefan Halikowski Smith, Annabel Jackson, Ivana Stolze Lima, Selina Patel Nascimento, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, Raan-Hann Tan, and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira.

Table of Contents:

General Series Editor&&&x2019;s Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Stefan HalikowskiSmith

Part 1 Approaches to Historical Sociolinguistics

Part2 Approaches to Social Anthropology

Part3 Approaches to History

Part4 Approaches to Literature