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The Land Beyond the Mists : Essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (464 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821443408
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Land Beyond the MistsDDC classification:
  • 967.5/71
LOC classification:
  • DT665.K58 -- N49 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Peering through the Mists -- Part 1. Historiography -- Chapter 1. Bushi and the Historians: Historiographical Themes in Eastern Kivu -- Chapter 2. Recent Historical Research in the Area of Lake Kivu: Rwanda and Zaire -- Part 2. The Lake Kivu Arena -- Chapter 3. Lake Kivu Regional Trade in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4. Kamo and Lubambo: Dual Genesis Traditions on Ijwi Island -- Chapter 5. The Campaigns of Rwabugiri -- Chapter 6. Rwabugiri and Ijwi -- Chapter 7. King and Chief on Ijwi Island -- Part 3. The Rwanda Arena -- Chapter 8. The Clans of Rwanda: A Historical Hypothesis -- Chapter 9. Bunyabungo: The Western Frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850 -- Chapter 10. What Role Has Kingship? An Analysis of the Umuganura Ritual of Rwanda as presented in M. d'Hertefelt and A. Coupez, La royauté sacrée de l'ancien Rwanda -- Chapter 11. Trick Cyclists? Recontextualizing Rwandan Dynastic Chronology -- Part 4. Perceiving History through the Mists -- Chapter 12. Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: Local Loyalties, Regional Royalties -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Peering through the Mists -- Part 1. Historiography -- Chapter 1. Bushi and the Historians: Historiographical Themes in Eastern Kivu -- Chapter 2. Recent Historical Research in the Area of Lake Kivu: Rwanda and Zaire -- Part 2. The Lake Kivu Arena -- Chapter 3. Lake Kivu Regional Trade in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4. Kamo and Lubambo: Dual Genesis Traditions on Ijwi Island -- Chapter 5. The Campaigns of Rwabugiri -- Chapter 6. Rwabugiri and Ijwi -- Chapter 7. King and Chief on Ijwi Island -- Part 3. The Rwanda Arena -- Chapter 8. The Clans of Rwanda: A Historical Hypothesis -- Chapter 9. Bunyabungo: The Western Frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850 -- Chapter 10. What Role Has Kingship? An Analysis of the Umuganura Ritual of Rwanda as presented in M. d'Hertefelt and A. Coupez, La royauté sacrée de l'ancien Rwanda -- Chapter 11. Trick Cyclists? Recontextualizing Rwandan Dynastic Chronology -- Part 4. Perceiving History through the Mists -- Chapter 12. Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda: Local Loyalties, Regional Royalties -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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