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Ganda (African people) --- Ganda (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Uganda --- Ouganda
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Ganda (African people) --- Soga (African people) --- Ganda (Peuple d'Afrique)
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Ganda (African people) --- Ethnology --- Ganda (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle
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Ganda (African people) --- Ganda (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Kisozi (Kampala, Uganda)) --- Social conditions
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Kings and rulers. --- Ganda (African people) --- Rois et souverains --- Ganda (Peuple d'Afrique)
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Ganda (African people) --- Ethnology --- Ganda (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle
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Buganda was the most prominent of the four traditional Bantu kingdoms of Uganda, which ceased to exist when the country was declared a Republic in 1967. The Kabakaship (kingship), the central institution of Buganda, was saturated with rituals and mythic images. Based on fieldwork and using extensive Luganda-language source material, this book describes and interprets the myths, rituals, shrines, and sacred regalia of the kingship within the changing contexts of the precolonial, colonial, and post-independence eras. Interpreting the Kabakaship as the symbolic center of the precolonial kingdom, this book examines James G. Frazer's theory of divine kingship, Buganda's creation myth, traditions about the origins of the kingship, regicide, royal ancestor shrines, and theories about the connection between Buganda and Ancient Egypt.
Ganda (African people) --- Ganda (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Kings and rulers --- Rites and ceremonies --- Rois et souverains --- Rites et cérémonies --- Kings and rulers. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Rites et cérémonies --- Baganda --- Baganda (African people) --- Waganda (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- GANDA (PEUPLE D'AFRIQUE) --- ROIS ET SOUVERAINS --- RITES ET CEREMONIES
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The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.
Mythology, Ganda. --- Oral tradition --- Ganda (African people) --- Baganda --- Baganda (African people) --- Waganda (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Ganda mythology --- Kings and rulers. --- Uganda --- History --- Mythology, Ganda --- Kings and rulers --- Ganda (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Mythologie ganda --- Tradition orale --- Rois et souverains --- Ouganda --- History of Africa --- Arts and Humanities
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