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The names of the python : belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930
Title
The names of the python : belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 / David L. Schoenbrun.
ISBN
9780299332501
0299332500
Publication
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]
Physical Description
xiii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2021
Series
Africa and the diaspora : history, politics, culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Python imaginaries: conceiving ancient groups beyond the face-to-face, 800 to 1200
Possessing an inland sea: making Mukasa, 1200s to 1600s
Mukasa's wealth: belonging and information, 1500s and 1600s
Vigilant python: a bellicose eighteenth century and groupwork's inner edge
Ladies and slaves: gendered groupwork and a long nineteenth century
Hiding clans: eighteenth-century misrule and twentieth-century groupwork.
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