TY - BOOK ID - 30128721 TI - A history of African motherhood PY - 2013 SN - 9781107030800 9781139344333 9781107547193 1107547199 1107030803 1139891332 1107241626 1107248655 1139344331 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - To 1890. KW - Motherhood KW - Mothers KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions. KW - Political aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Uganda. KW - Moms KW - Parents KW - Women KW - Housewives KW - Pregnant women KW - Maternity KW - Parenthood KW - Social conditions KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30128721 AB - This history of African motherhood over the longue dureĢe demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut across patrilineal and cultural-linguistic divides. The importance of motherhood as an ideology and a social institution meant that in chiefdoms and kingdoms queen mothers were powerful officials who legitimated the power of kings. This was the case in Buganda, the many kingdoms of Busoga, and the polities of Bugwere. By taking a long-term perspective from c.700 to 1900 CE and using an interdisciplinary approach - drawing on historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, and oral traditions and literature, as well as archival sources - this book shows the durability, mutability and complexity of ideologies of motherhood in this region. ER -