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Beyond the royal gaze : clanship and public healing in Buganda /

"Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who were not of the center but nevertheless became central to its functioning....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kodesh, Neil, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, ©2010.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Public healing, political complexity, and the production of knowledge
  • Genre, historical imagination, and early Ganda history
  • Clanship and the pursuit of collective well-being
  • Political leaders as public healers
  • Clanship, state formation, and the shifting contours of public healing.