كتاب
The land beyond the mists: essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda
| العنوان: | The land beyond the mists: essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda |
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| المؤلفون: | Newbury, David S. |
| بيانات النشر: | Athens : Ohio University Press, c2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| وصف مادي: | xvi, 444 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ethnology -- Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda), Ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic), Ethnology -- Rwanda., History., Electronic books |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- History., Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- Historiography., Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History., Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Historiography., Rwanda -- History., Rwanda -- Historiography. |
| الوصف: | The horrific tragedies of Central Africa in the 1990s riveted the attention of the world. But these crises did not occur in a historical vacuum. By peering through the mists of the past, the case studies presented in The Land Beyond the Mists illustrate the significant advances to have taken place since decolonization in our understanding of the pre-colonial histories of Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Congo. Based on both oral and written sources, these essays are important both for their methods-viewing history from the perspective of local actors-and for their conclusions, which seriously c |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Bushi and the historians : historiographical themes in eastern Kivu -- Recent historical research in the area of Lake Kivu : Rwanda and Zaire -- Lake Kivu regional trade in the nineteenth century -- Kamo and lubambo : dual genesis traditions on Ijwi Island -- The campaigns of Rwabugiri -- Rwabugiri and Ijwi -- King and chief on Ijwi Island -- The clans of Rwanda : a historical hypothesis -- Bunyabungo : the western frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850 -- What role has kingship? An analysis of the Umuganura ritual in Rwanda as presented in M. d'Hertefelt and A. Coupez, La royauté sacrée de l'ancien Rwanda -- Trick cyclists? Recontextualizing Rwandan dynastic chronology -- Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda : local loyalties, regional royalties. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn286478949 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8214-1874-1 978-0-8214-1875-8 0-8214-1874-2 0-8214-1875-0 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012172737.8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780821418741 9780821418758 0821418742 0821418750 |
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