Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda

Name: Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda
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ISBN: 9780195064360

ISBN-10: 0195064364

ISBN-13: 9780195064360

Edition: 1991

Authors: Benjamin C. Ray

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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…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.56" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English