The names of the python : belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 /

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"Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun examines groupwork--the imaginative labo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schoenbrun, David Lee (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]
Series:Africa and the diaspora.
Subjects:
Bantu-speaking peoples > Victoria, Lake, Region > Ethnic identity > History.
Ethnic groups > Victoria, Lake, Region > History.
Clans > Victoria, Lake, Region > History.
Social groups > Victoria, Lake, Region > History.
HISTORY / General
Bantu-speaking peoples > Ethnic identity
Clans
Ethnic groups
Ethnic relations
Social conditions
Social groups
Victoria, Lake, Region > Ethnic relations > History.
Victoria, Lake, Region > Social conditions.
Buganda > Ethnic relations > History.
Buganda > Social conditions.
Africa > Lake Victoria Region
Uganda > Buganda
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Python Imaginaries: Conceiving Ancient Groups beyond the Face-to-Face, 800 to 1200
  • 2. Possessing an Inland Sea: Making Mukasa, 1200s to 1600s
  • 3. Mukasa's Wealth: Belonging and Information, 1500s and 1600s
  • 4. Vigilant Python: A Bellicose Eighteenth Century and Groupwork's Inner Edge
  • 5. Ladies and Slaves: Gendered Groupwork and a Long Nineteenth Century
  • 6. Hiding Clans: Eighteenth-Century Misrule and Twentieth-Century Groupwork
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Lexical-Semantic Reconstructions
  • Notes

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