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The land beyond the mists : essays on identity and authority in p recolonial Congo and Rwanda /

Newbury, David S.

The land beyond the mists : essays on identity and authority in p recolonial Congo and Rwanda / David Newbury ; foreword by Jan Vansin a. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2009. - xvi, 444 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-435) and index.

Bushi and the historians : historiographical themes in eastern Kivu -- Recent historical research in the area of Lake Kivu : Rwanda and Zai re -- Lake Kivu regional trade in the nineteenth century -- Kamo and lu bambo : dual genesis traditions on Ijwi Island -- The campaigns of Rwab ugiri -- Rwabugiri and Ijwi -- King and chief on Ijwi Island -- The cla ns of Rwanda : a historical hypothesis -- Bunyabungo : the western fron tier 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. C oupez, La royautâe sacrâee de l'ancien Rwanda -- Trick cyclists? Recont extualizing Rwandan dynastic chronology -- Precolonial Burundi and Rwan da : local loyalties, regional royalties.

9780821418741 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780821418758 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009-021935


Ethnology--Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda)
Ethnology--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Ethnology--Rwanda.


Rwanda-- History.
Rwanda-- Historiography.

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