The land beyond the mists [electronic resource] : essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda / David Newbury ; foreword by Jan Vansina.
Publication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2009.Description: xvi, 444 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780821418741 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0821418742 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780821418758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0821418750 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780821443408 (e-book)
- Ethnology -- Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda)
- Ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Ethnology -- Rwanda
- Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- History
- Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- Historiography
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Historiography
- Rwanda -- History
- Rwanda -- Historiography
- 967.5/71 22
- DT665.K58 N49 2009eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-435) and index.
Bushi and the historians : historiographical themes in eastern Kivu -- Recent historical research in the area of Lake Kivu : Rwanda and Zaire -- Lake Kivu regional trade in the nineteenth century -- Kamo and lubambo : dual genesis traditions on Ijwi Island -- The campaigns of Rwabugiri -- Rwabugiri and Ijwi -- King and chief on Ijwi Island -- The clans of Rwanda : a historical hypothesis -- Bunyabungo : the western frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850 -- What role has kingship? An analysis of the Umuganura ritual in Rwanda as presented in M. d'Hertefelt and A. Coupez, La royaut�e sacr�ee de l'ancien Rwanda -- Trick cyclists? Recontextualizing Rwandan dynastic chronology -- Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda : local loyalties, regional royalties.
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