Kingship and state : the Buganda dynasty /

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Author / Creator:	Wrigley, Christopher.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 293 pages) : map.
Language:	English
Series:	African studies series ; 88 African studies series ; 88.
Subject:	Mythology, Ganda. Oral tradition -- Uganda. Ganda (African people) -- Kings and rulers. Ganda (African people) -- Kings and rulers. Mythology, Ganda. Oral tradition. Uganda -- History -- To 1890. Uganda. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11109776

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ISBN:	0511000413 9780511000416 0521473705 0511886799 9780511886799 0511584768 9780511584763
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.
Other form:	Print version: Wrigley, Christopher. Kingship and state. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996 0521473705

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