The Roots of Ethnicity : The Origins of the Acholi of Uganda Before 18 /

In The Roots of Ethnicity, Ronald R. Atkinson argues that although colonial rule and its aftermath have played a major role in shaping the particular manifestations of ethnicity in Africa, many sociohistorical developments crucial to current expressions of ethnicity can be traced to a past long befo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atkinson, Ronald Raymond, 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Acoli (volk)
Ethnohistory.
Ethnicity.
Chiefdoms.
Acholi (African people)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Chefferie (Anthropologie) > Ouganda > Histoire.
Ethnohistoire > Ouganda.
Ethnicite > Ouganda.
Acholi (Peuple d'Afrique) > Identite ethnique.
Acholi (Peuple d'Afrique) > Histoire > Sources.
Acholi (Peuple d'Afrique) > Origines.
Chiefdoms > Uganda > History.
Ethnohistory > Uganda.
Ethnicity > Uganda.
Acholi (African people) > Ethnic identity.
Acholi (African people) > History > Sources.
Acholi (African people) > Origin.
Uganda.
Sources.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ethnicity in perspective
  • pt. 1. Setting the stage
  • The available sources and other influences shaping the present work
  • Social and economic life in Acholi before the late seventeenth century
  • pt. 2. The introduction of a new sociopolitical order and the beginnings of an Acholi society, c. 1675-1725
  • The new order and its foundations
  • The emergence of the earliest Acholi chiefdoms
  • pt. 3. The extension and entrenchment of the new order, c. 1725-90
  • The southeastern zone: the new order takes hold
  • The southeastern and east-central zones: the new order spreads
  • The south-central and western zones: the continuing extension of the new order
  • The central and northern zones: the consolidation of the new order at the center and its furthest extension north
  • Appendix: Estimated population of Acholi chiefdoms, c. 1790.

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