A green place, a good place : agrarian change, gender, and social identity in the Great Lakes region to the 15th century

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A green place, a good place : agrarian change, gender, and social identity in the Great Lakes region to the 15th century

David Lee Schoenbrun

(Social history of Africa)

Heinemann , Fountain , James Currey, c1998

  • : Heinemann : hbk
  • : Heinemann : pbk
  • : James Currey : hbk
  • : James Currey : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-285) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: James Currey : pbk ISBN 9780852556313

Description

Collects findings about the environmental, archaeological and cultural history of the Bantu speaking peoples in Uganda, north-western Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and eastern Congo. The author shows that historians can respect African idioms of justice, power, health and healing.

Table of Contents

  • The challenge of ancient African history: finding the way back. The ancient cultural world between the Great Lakes: the roots of agricultural abundance - 1000 BC to AD 1500
  • the challenges of prosperity - social identity, politics and health to AD 800. Regional development, 800 to 1500: the Kivu Rift Valley
  • by Lake Victoria
  • into the Savannah. Epilogue - the two powers since the 15th century
  • a note on evidence.
Volume

: James Currey : hbk ISBN 9780852556818

Description

Collects findings about the environmental, archaeological and cultural history of the Bantu speaking peoples in Uganda, north-western Tanzania, Rwanda, Barundi and eastern Congo. The author shows that historians can respect African idioms of justice, power, health and healing.

Table of Contents

  • The challenge of ancient African history: finding the way back. The ancient cultural world between the Great Lakes: the roots of agricultural abundance - 1000 BC to AD 1500
  • the challenges of prosperity - social identity, politics and health to AD 800. Regional development, 800 to 1500: the Kivu Rift Valley
  • by Lake Victoria
  • into the Savannah. Epilogue - the two powers since the 15th century
  • a note on evidence.

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