The Kanyok Of Zaire: An Institutional and Ideological History to 1895: 74 (African Studies, Series Number 74) - Softcover

Yoder, John C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521523109 ISBN 13: 9780521523103

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

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By analysing the oral histories, myths and legends of the Kanyok, John Yoder describes the political and cultural development of a people who, before 1891, had no written records. His history forms the nucleus for a broader and more composite understanding of the entire southern savanna region of Zaire.

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"...an important contribution to our understanding of precolonial intellectual history in Africa." David Newbury, American Historical Review

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In this study John Yoder chronicles the history of the Kanyok, a people from the southern savanna of Zaire, from before 1500 until their incorporation into the Congo Free State in the 1890s. By analysing their oral histories, myths, and legends, he describes the political and cultural development of a people who, before 1891, had no written records. Yoder sets his work firmly within the larger context of the southern savanna by extending his investigations to the traditions of neighbouring peoples, in particular to the Luba and the Lunda, whose empires once dominated the region. In this way he demonstrates how the same stories and ideas circulated over a vast area but were continually adapted to local circumstances. Yoder's history of the Kanyok of Zaire thereby forms the nucleus for a broader and more composite understanding of the entire region.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521523109
• ISBN 13: 9780521523103
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230