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Kings and Clans - Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840 (Paperback)
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Kings and Clans - Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840 (Paperback)
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This book questions the assumption that ""clans"", as traditionally
defined by anthropologists and historians, are static structures
that hamper political centralization. By reconstructing the history
of kings and clans in the Kivu Rift Valley at a time of critical
social change, this book enlarges our understanding of social
process and the growth of state power in Africa. In the early 19th
century many factors contributed to the creation of new social
relations in the Lake Kivu region - ecological change, population
movement, the expansion of the Rwandan state from the east, the
rise of new political units to the west and the movement of many
population groups and their rural forms through the area. This book
looks at the role of clans in the establishment of a new kingdom on
Ijwi Island in Lake Kivu. Drawing on detailed ethnographic
observations of the social and ritual organizations of Ijwi
society, oral data and evidence from written sources, this book
shows that the clans of Ijwi were not static formations, nor did
the establishment of a royal family on the island emerge from
military conquest and internal social breakdown.
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