Christopher Wrigley - Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty (African Studies)
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In a study of Africas 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 Africas most famous kingdoms.
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The pre-colonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present state of Uganda, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 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.
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AfricanStudiesSeries88
Editorial board
Professor Naomi Chazan, TheHarryS. TrumanResearchInstitutefortheAdvancementofPeace, TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem
Professor Christopher Clapham, DepartmentofPoliticsandInternationalRelations, LancasterUniversity
Professor Peter Ekeh, DepartmentofAfricanAmericanStudies, StateUniversityofNewYork, Buffalo
Dr John Lonsdale, TrinityCollege, Cambridge
Professor Patrick Manning, DepartmentofHistory, NortheasternUniversity, Boston
Published in collaboration with THE AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE, CAMBRIDGE
Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 I RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia
Cambridge University Press 1996
First published 1996
Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge
Wrigley, Christopher. Myth and history in Buganda: a study of an African tradition Christopher Wrigley. p. cm. (African studies series; 88) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0 521 47370 5 1. Uganda History To 1890. 2. Mythology, Ganda. 3. Oral tradition Uganda. 4. Ganda (African people) Kings and rulers. I. Title. II. Series. DT433.265.W75 1996 967.6'01-dc20 95 4678 CIP
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