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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, culture
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Africa and the diaspora.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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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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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Bantu-speaking peoples -- Victoria, Lake, Region -- Ethnic identity -- History.
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Bantu-speaking peoples. |
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Ethnicity. |
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History. |
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Ethnic groups -- Victoria, Lake, Region -- History.
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Ethnic groups. |
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Clans -- Victoria, Lake, Region -- History.
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Clans. |
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Social groups -- Victoria, Lake, Region -- History.
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Victoria, Lake, Region -- Ethnic relations -- History.
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Social groups. |
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Victoria, Lake, Region -- Social conditions.
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Buganda -- Ethnic relations -- History.
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Buganda -- Social conditions.
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Bantu-speaking peoples -- Ethnic identity. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Social conditions. |
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Africa -- Lake Victoria Region. |
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Uganda -- Buganda. |
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HISTORY / General. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schoenbrun, David Lee. Names of the python. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021] 9780299332501 (DLC) 2020035742 (OCoLC)1200832335 |
| ISBN |
9780299332532 (electronic book) |
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0299332535 (electronic book) |
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9780299332501 |
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0299332500 |
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