| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, culture |
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Africa and the diaspora.
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| Contents |
Python imaginaries : conceiving ancient groups beyond the face-to-face, 800 to 1200 -- Possessing an inland sea : making Mukasa, 1200s to 1600s -- Mukasa's wealth : belonging and information, 1500s and 1600s -- Vigilant python : a bellicose eighteenth century and groupwork's inner edge -- Ladies and slaves : gendered groupwork and a long nineteenth century -- Hiding clans : eighteenth-century misrule and twentieth-century groupwork |
| Summary |
"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 labor that people do to constitute themselves as communities--in an iconic and influential region in East Africa. His study traces the roots of nationhood in the Ganda state over the course of a millennia, demonstrating that the earliest clans were based not on political identity or language but on shared investments, knowledges, and practices. Grounded in Schoenbrun's skillful mastery of historical linguistics and vernacular texts, The Names of the Python supplements and redirects current debates about ethnicity in ex-colonial Africa and beyond. This timely volume carefully distinguishes past from present and shows the many possibilities that still exist for the creative cultural imagination."--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed October 5, 2023) |
| Subject |
Bantu-speaking peoples -- Victoria, Lake -- Ethnic identity -- History
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Ethnic groups -- Victoria, Lake -- History
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Clans -- Victoria, Lake -- History
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Social groups -- Victoria, Lake -- History
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HISTORY / General
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Bantu-speaking peoples -- Ethnic identity
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Clans
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Ethnic groups
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Ethnic relations
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Social conditions
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Social groups
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| SUBJECT |
Victoria, Lake -- Ethnic relations -- History
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Victoria, Lake -- Social conditions
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Buganda -- Ethnic relations -- History
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Buganda -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Africa -- Lake Victoria Region
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Uganda -- Buganda
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780299332532 |
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0299332535 |
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