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040			_cGZK Library
041			_aEnglish
082			_aHS2024/01
100			_aSchoenbrun, David L.
245			_aBeyond Ethinicity : A New Regional History of Buganda 900 - 1930
247			_aThe Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930
250			_a2024 Edition
260			_aUganda : _bFountain Publishers, _c2024
300			_a339p., illustrated, _c16cmx23cm
490			_aFountain Studies in East African History _v26
520			_aSystems 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.
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