Landed Obligation

Name: Landed Obligation
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ISBN: 9780325070360

ISBN-10: 0325070369

ISBN-13: 9780325070360

Edition: 2003

Authors: Holly E. Hanson

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Focusing on love's importance to power, Hanson suggests new interpretations of the history of Buganda. She traces an African habit of thought - the idea that people ought to be tied by bonds of affection - to show how people used this idea to knot together a kingdom and criticize colonial practices of power. Scholars and students of Buganda, as well as readers intrigued by comparative study of social structure, power, and power's practices in Africa, will find Hanson's vital analysis extremely valuable. "When people in Buganda thought about power, they spoke about love." So begins this study of practices of power and mutual obligation between people with authority, and those they ruled in…

Book details

List price: $52.90
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 11/20/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.21" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


A Note on Language


A Dynastic Chronology of the Buganda Kingdom


A Timeline for Buganda and Uganda



Introduction



Creating Relationships with Gifts of Land: Lineages, Chiefs, and Royals Interact to Make the State, ca. 900-ca. 1700



Kabakas Struggle to Hold the Center: The Destabilizing Consequences of Stolen People and Unobligated Power, ca. 1500-ca. 1800



Chiefship in the Dissolution and Restoration of Civil Order, 1857-1899



When the Miles Came: Asserting Sovereignty with Land



The Erosion of Reciprocal Obligation, 1906-1920



The Order of Miles on Trial



Conclusion


Afterword: What Happened to Mailo Land?


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Index