ISBN:
0-19-822711-6
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978-0-19-822711-3
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 293 Seiten
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Karten
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in African Affairs
DDC:
301.592096761
Keywords:
Acholi Uganda
;
Geschichte, politische
;
Geschichte
;
Staatenlosigkeit
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Führer, politischer
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Stateless Societies and the Historian in Africa -- Environment, Economy, and Settlement: The Formation of a Lango Identity -- Social Groups in Nineteenth-Century Lango -- Pre-Colonial Clan Leadership -- The Zenith and Collapse of Regional Leadership -- The Politics of Pacification -- The Formation of a Chiefly Hierarchy -- Power and Patronage in the Colonial Bureaucracy -- The System Scrutinized -- The Origins of the Langi -- The Organization and Conduct of Fieldwork in Lango District -- Two Oral Testimonies -- Oral Sources.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 276-286"This book began as a Ph.D. thesis [...] at the School of Oriental and African Studies and was apporved by the UNiversty of London in 1973." (Preface)
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Ph.D. Thesis, University of London, 1973, entitled Political authority among the Langi of northern Uganda, circa 1800 to 1939
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