Myth, Ritual and Kingship in Buganda

Ray, Benjamin C

ISBN 10: 0195064364 / ISBN 13: 9780195064360

Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991

Beschreibung

"Buganda was the most prominent of the four traditional Bantu kingdoms of Uganda, which ceased to exist when the country was declared a Republic in 1967. The Kabakaship (kingship), the central institution of Buganda, was saturated with rituals and mythic images. Based on fieldwork and using extensive Luganda-language source material, this book describes and interprets the myths, rituals, shrines, and sacred regalia of the kingship within the changing contexts of the precolonial, colonial, and post-independence eras. Interpreting the Kabakaship as the symbolic center of the precolonial kingdom, this book examines James G. Frazer's theory of divine kingship, Buganda's creation myth, traditions about the origins of the kingship, regicide, royal ancestor shrines, and theories about the connection between Buganda and Ancient Egypt." (publisher's blurb).

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 016220

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Myth, Ritual and Kingship in Buganda
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0195064364
• ISBN-13: 9780195064360
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

Buganda was the most prominent of the four traditional Bantu kingdoms of Uganda, which ceased to exist when the country was declared a Republic in 1967. The Kabakaship (kingship), the central institution of Buganda, was saturated with rituals and mythic images. Based on fieldwork and using extensive Luganda-language source material, this book describes and interprets the myths, rituals, shrines, and sacred regalia of the kingship within the changing contexts of the precolonial, colonial, and post-independence eras. Interpreting the Kabakaship as the symbolic center of the precolonial kingdom, this book examines James G. Frazer's theory of divine kingship, Buganda's creation myth, traditions about the origins of the kingship, regicide, royal ancestor shrines, and theories about the connection between Buganda and Ancient Egypt.