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Kingship and state : the Buganda dynasty / Christopher Wrigley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: African studies series ; 88.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 293 pages) : mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511000413
  • 9780511000416
  • 0511886799
  • 9780511886799
  • 0511584768
  • 9780511584763
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kingship and state.DDC classification:
  • 967.6/01 20
LOC classification:
  • DT433.265 .W75 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Preamble -- 2. The story and its making -- 3. Introduction to myth -- 4. Introduction to Buganda -- 5. The remoter past -- 6. Genesis -- 7. The cycle of the kings -- 8. Fragments of history -- 9. Foreign Affairs -- 10. The making of the state -- 11. Reflections.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index.

Print version record.

1. Preamble -- 2. The story and its making -- 3. Introduction to myth -- 4. Introduction to Buganda -- 5. The remoter past -- 6. Genesis -- 7. The cycle of the kings -- 8. Fragments of history -- 9. Foreign Affairs -- 10. The making of the state -- 11. Reflections.

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.

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