The land beyond the mists : essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda / / David Newbury ; foreword by Jan Vansina.

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvi, 444 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 royaute sacree de l'ancien Rwanda
  • Trick cyclists? Recontextualizing Rwandan dynastic chronology
  • Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda : local loyalties, regional royalties.