The names of the python belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930

"Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun examines groupwork--the imaginative labo...

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Autor principal: Schoenbrun, David Lee (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press [2021]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, culture.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4743904x*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Python Imaginaries: Conceiving Ancient Groups beyond the Face-to-Face, 800 to 1200
  • 2. Possessing an Inland Sea: Making Mukasa, 1200s to 1600s
  • 3. Mukasa's Wealth: Belonging and Information, 1500s and 1600s
  • 4. Vigilant Python: A Bellicose Eighteenth Century and Groupwork's Inner Edge
  • 5. Ladies and Slaves: Gendered Groupwork and a Long Nineteenth Century
  • 6. Hiding Clans: Eighteenth-Century Misrule and Twentieth-Century Groupwork
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Lexical-Semantic Reconstructions
  • Notes.