商品簡介
In this methodologically innovative work, Kodesh (history, U. of Wisconsin at Madison) explores the history of Buganda (an African kingdom lying on the northern shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda) through analysis of oral clan histories, bringing to the fore previously neglected historical actors in a field long dominated by dynastic histories, specifically spirit mediums, public healers, and other wielders of authority on the local level. He discusses how shifting notions of clanship and public healing informed the character of political developments in the period before the emergence of a powerful kingship, particularly in terms of defining and mobilizing political communities and in the development of political complexity and the expansion of political scale. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Neil Kodesh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
