01882nam a22002297a 4500 OSt 20251202050750.0 251202b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789970198436 GZK Library English HS2024/01 Schoenbrun, David L. Beyond Ethinicity : A New Regional History of Buganda 900 - 1930 The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 2024 Edition Uganda : Fountain Publishers, 2024 339p., illustrated, 16cmx23cm Fountain Studies in East African History 26 Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific identifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L.Schoenbrun examines groupwork - the imaginative labor that people do not constitute themselves as communities- in an iconic and influential region in East Africa within the past millennium. He shows Africans formed groups beyond the face-to-face, working from shrines,without writing. Legal culture and ideologies of fertility blended with the expansion of the Buganda state. Women's creative embrace of cultural work and procreation blunted the dislocations of that state's expansion. Literate Christian men writing Uganda's history in a time of colonial rule debated belonging in more than ethnic terms. Grounded in Schoenbrun's skillful mastery of historical linguistics and vernacular texts, Beyond Ethnicity supplements and redirects current debates about ethnicity in Africa and beyond. This timely volume carefully distinguishes past from present and shows the many possibilities that still exist for the creative cultural imagination. Custom HS 0 1233 1233 0 0 Custom 0 0 NFIC GZKL GZKL GEN 2025-12-02 0 HS2024/01 2025-1361 2025-12-02 05:04:00 2025-12-02 HS