"Winner of the 2011 African Studies Association Herskovits
Award"
"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 politics 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.
General
Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2010 |
First published: |
March 2010 |
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8139-2927-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8139-2927-X |
Barcode: |
9780813929279 |
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