Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa : Oral Traditions and History, 1400-1830
Elizabeth A. Eldredge
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Woodbridge : : Boydell & Brewer, , 2015.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (452 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 History and Oral Traditions in Southeastern Africa; 2 Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction ofSouthern African History; 3 Shipwreck Survivor Accounts from the Sixteenth andSeventeenth Centuries; 4 Founding Families and Chiefdoms East of the Drakensberg; 5 Maputo Bay Peoples and Chiefdoms before 1740; 6 Maputo Bay, 1740-1820; 7 Eastern Chiefdoms of Southern Africa, 1740-1815; 8 Zulu Conquests and the Consolidation of Power, 1815-21; 9 Military Campaigns, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration. - 10 Ancestors, Descent Lines, and Chiefdoms West of theDrakensberg before 182011 The Caledon River Valley and the BaSotho ofMoshoeshoe, 1821-33; 12 The Expansion of the European Presence atMaputo Bay, 1821-33; 13 Southern African Kingdoms on the Eve of Colonization; Appendix A: Ama Swazi King Lists; Appendix B: Chronology of Conflicts, Migrations, andPolitical Reconfiguration East of the Drakensberg in theEra of Shaka; Appendix C: Interviewees from the James StuartCollection of Oral Traditions; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Examines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms in nineteenth-century southeastern Africa.
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| ISBN | 9781580465144
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