The Roots of Ethnicity : : The Origins of the Acholi of Uganda Before 1800 / / Ronald R. Atkinson.
In The Roots of Ethnicity, Ronald R. Atkinson argues that although colonial rule and its aftermath have played a major role in shaping the particular manifestations of ethnicity in Africa, many sociohistorical developments crucial to current expressions of ethnicity can be traced to a past long befo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Ethnohistory Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 25 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary and Pronunciation Guide
- Introduction: Ethnicity in Perspective
- Chapter 1. The Available Sources and Other Influences Shaping the Present Work
- Chapter 2. Social and Economic Life in Acholi Before the Late Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 3. The New Order and Its Foundations
- Chapter 4. The Emergence of the Earliest Acholi Chiefdoms
- Chapter 5. The Southeastern Zone: The New Order Takes Hold
- Chapter 6. The Southeastern and East-Central Zones: The New Order Spreads
- Chapter 7. The South-Central and Western Zones: The Continuing Extension of the New Order
- Chapter 8. The Central and Northern Zones: The Consolidation of the New Order at the Center and Its Furthest Extension North
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Estimated Population of Acholi Chiefdoms c. 1790
- References
- Index
- Backmatter