Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty

ISBN-13: 9780521473705 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 312 str.

Christopher Wrigley; David Anderson; Carolyn Brown

Opis

In a study of Africa's political and religious past, Christopher Wrigley uses local traditions and comparative mythology to explore an ancient system of myth and ritual in the precolonial kingdom of Buganda, the nucleus of modern Uganda. The study includes critical assessment of oral traditions and places Buganda in a wider regional context. The book is an elegant, wide-ranging and original study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.

Recenzje

"Christopher Wrigley's brilliantly original and provocative work of research and synthesis may inspire renewed attention by other scholars to major issues of precolonial lake region history at a time when archaeology is revealing much new information." John A. Rowe, International Journal of African Historical Studies

Spis treści

1. Preamble; 2. The story and its making; 3. Introduction to myth; 4. Introduction to Buganda; 5. The remoter past; 6. Genesis; 7. The cycle of the kings; 8. Fragments of history; 9. Foreign affairs; 10. The making of the state; 11. Reflections.