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Title

Myth, Ritual and Kingship in Buganda

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0195064364

ISBN 13

9780195064360

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

Weight

600 grams

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Anthropology

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Synopsis

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.

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Benjamin C. Ray is at University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

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