Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda - Hardcover

Kodesh, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081392927X ISBN 13: 9780813929279

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2010

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"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." - Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania, author of Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania "Beyond the Royal Gaze is a major contribution to the field, beautifully written, based on good solid research in terms of ethnographic, oral, and linguistic data, and perhaps most importantly, has provided scholars with an entirely new way of analyzing oral and royal traditions." - Kairn A. Klieman, University of Houston, author of "The Pygmies Were Our Compass": Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E."

Reseña del editor:

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 ensure collective prosperity and perpetuity - usually expressed in the language of health and healing - lay at the heart of community-building processes in Buganda. Kodesh's work offers a novel approach to the use of oral sources and opens up new possibilities for researching and writing histories of more distant periods in Africa's past. ""Beyond the Royal Gaze"" will appeal to students and scholars of health and healing, political complexity, and the production of knowledge in places where limited documentary evidence exists.

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• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 081392927X
• ISBN 13: 9780813929279
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264