| Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty Contributor(s): Wrigley, Christopher (Author), Anderson, David (Editor), Brown, Carolyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521473705 ISBN-13: 9780521473705 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $132.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1996 Annotation: The pre-colonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present state of Uganda, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely before 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 Christopher Wrigley, a senior and highly respected scholar, endeavours to show that the stories that 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. The author has written an elegant, wide-ranging and original study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Africa - Central - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 967.601 |
| LCCN: 95004678 |
| Series: African Studies Series |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.18" W x 9.19" (1.37 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a study of Africa's political and religious past, Christopher Wrigley uses local traditions and comparative mythology to explore an ancient system of myth and ritual in the precolonial kingdom of Buganda, the nucleus of modern Uganda. The study includes critical assessment of oral traditions and places Buganda in a wider regional context. The book is an elegant, wide-ranging and original study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms. |