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Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda
Neil Kodesh
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Description for Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda
Hardcover. Drawing on insights from a variety of disciplines - history, historical linguistics, archaeology, and anthropology - this title argues that the domains of polities and public healing were intimately entwined in Buganda from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; 3J; HBJH; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who were not of the center but nevertheless became central to its functioning. Drawing on insights from a variety of disciplines - history, historical linguistics, archaeology, and anthropology - Neil Kodesh argues that the domains of polities and public healing were intimately entwined in Buganda from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted throughout Buganda, Kodesh demonstrates how efforts to ... Read more
Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who were not of the center but nevertheless became central to its functioning. Drawing on insights from a variety of disciplines - history, historical linguistics, archaeology, and anthropology - Neil Kodesh argues that the domains of polities and public healing were intimately entwined in Buganda from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted throughout Buganda, Kodesh demonstrates how efforts to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813929279
SKU
V9780813929279
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99-15
About Neil Kodesh
Neil Kodesh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Reviews for Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda
"Beyond the Royal Gaze is an important work of eastern African history. Neil Kodesh rethinks concepts of regional history and shows that nodes of authority emerged around the capacity of shrines, spirits, and mediums to heal individual and collective misfortune. In the process, this original book changes our understanding of both clanship and the history of a major kingdom's centralization." ... Read more