Womunafu's Bunafu : : A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community / / David William Cohen.
This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized as an infant to be possessed by Mukama, the spirit of a heroic figure in the tradition of the wider region, Womunafu was placed in a large enclosure, one of four he would occupy fro...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1978 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures and Tables
- Orthography
- Introduction
- I. The Birth of Womunafu
- II. The World of Nafa
- III. The Young Mukama
- IV. Bukanga
- V. Kyonzira
- VI. Womunafu and Nafa
- VII. Reflections of a Wider World
- VIII. The Bwebya Illness
- IX. Bunafu
- Appendix: The Construction of a Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index