Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Historical linguistics, archaeology, paleoecology and biogeography, oral traditions, comparative ethnography, and more conventional documentary sources to study East Africa’s earlier history.
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
… → 1990
African Studies, MA, University of California, Los Angeles
… → 1983
Philosophy, BA, Lewis and Clark College
… → 1980
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agricultural history
Social Sciences
pastoralism
Earth & Environmental Sciences
archaeological evidence
Earth & Environmental Sciences
historical geography
Earth & Environmental Sciences
lake
Earth & Environmental Sciences
paleoecology
Earth & Environmental Sciences
sixteenth century
Social Sciences
food
Social Sciences
Network
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Grants 2005 2011
- 2 Finished
Determining Value: Southern Tanzanians' Approaches to Trade, c. 300-1600 C. E.
7/1/10 → 12/31/11
Project: Research project
Fulbright-Hays 2005 Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program (Kathryn de Luna)
7/1/05 → 12/31/06
Project: Research project
Research Output 1991 2018
Crafting early african histories with Jan Vansina
Schoenbrun, D. L., Jun 1 2018, In : History in Africa. 45, p. 99-112 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Labor
Africa
African History
Crafting
Responsibility
Ethnic formation with other-than-human beings: Island shrine practice in Uganda's long eighteenth century
Schoenbrun, D. L., Jun 1 2018, In : History in Africa. 45, p. 397-443 47 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Uganda
Shrines
Human Being
Descent
Information Sharing
Introduction: Ethnic formation with other-than-human beings
Schoenbrun, D. L. & Johnson, J. L., Jun 1 2018, In : History in Africa. 45, p. 307-345 39 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Ethnography
Historian
Human Being
Ethnic Groups
Ethnographers
Oral Tradition
Schoenbrun, D. L., 2017, Field Manual for Archaeology in Africa. Livingstone Smith, A., Cornelissen, E., Gosselain, O. P. & MacEachern, S. (eds.). Royal Museum for Central Africa, p. 253-256 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Pythons worked: Constellating communities of practice with conceptual metaphor in northern Lake Victoria, ca. A.D. 800 to 1200
Schoenbrun, D. L., Jan 1 2016, Knowledge in Motion: Constellations of Learning Across Time and Place. University of Arizona Press, p. 216-246 31 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Boidae
Metaphor
Victoria
Lakes