Studies on Gender Views and Life Histories in Swahili Area : Through Women's "Narratives"

我们在斯瓦希里海岸地区进行了三年的研究。每个成员在村子里和一些家庭住了几天，我们决定我们将能够收集妇女的生活史，并详细口述妇女关于她们与伊斯兰教的关系、婚姻生活的真相、家庭联系等方面的叙述。同样，我们在一定程度上收集了女性对政治的看法，例如，1964年的桑给巴尔革命，2000年的坦桑尼亚大选，2008年的肯尼亚大选。当我们口述他们的生活史时，我们使用了他们自己的语言，也就是他们自己的斯瓦希里语变体，所以，我们可以使用这些叙事作为语言研究和社会语言研究的资料。

We did our research in Swahili Coast Area during three years. Each member lived with some families for several days in the villages where we decided that we would be able to collect women's life histories and dictated in detail women's narratives on their relationship with Islam, truth of marriage lives, the family connections and so on. Again, we collected to a certain degree women's opinions on politics, for example, on the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, Tanzania's general election in 2000, Kenya's general election in 2008. We used their own languages, that is, their own varieties of Swahili Language when we dictated their life histories, so, we can use the narratives as data for linguistic study and socio-linguistic study.