Kingdoms and chiefdoms of southeastern Africa : oral traditions and history, 1400-1830
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Kingdoms and chiefdoms of southeastern Africa : oral traditions and history, 1400-1830
(Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, v. 64)
University of Rochester Press, 2015
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-424) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Examines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms in nineteenth-century southeastern Africa.
This study traces the social and political history of the peoples of early precolonial southeastern Africa, including the regions of modern KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, southern Mozambique from Maputo Bay southward, and Lesotho. Theemergence in the early nineteenth century of well-known southern African kingdoms such as the AmaZulu, AmaSwazi, and BaSotho kingdoms was the culmination of centuries of sociopolitical developments, during which political controlwas consolidated in the ruling descent lines of small-scale chiefdoms. Providing the first comprehensive scholarly examination of recorded oral traditions from southeastern Africa, Eldredge's work chronicles the events and life stories propelling this consolidation and the advent of large-scale chiefdoms and kingdoms..
Elizabeth A. Eldredge is an independent scholar and author of The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828: War, Shaka, and the Consolidation of Power.
Table of Contents
Preface
History and Oral Traditions in Southeastern Africa
Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction of Southern African History
Shipwreck Survivor Accounts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Founding Families and Chiefdoms East of the Drakensberg
Maputo Bay Peoples and Chiefdoms before 1740
Maputo Bay, 1740-1820
Eastern Chiefdoms of Southern Africa, 1740-1815
Zulu Conquests and the Consolidation of Power, 1815-21
Military Campaigns, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration
Ancestors, Descent Lines, and Chiefdoms West of the Drakensberg before 1820
The Caledon River Valley and the BaSotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33
The Expansion of the European Presence at Maputo Bay, 1821-33
Southern African Kingdoms on the Eve of Colonization
Appendix A: AmaSwazi King List
Appendix B: Chronology of Conflicts, Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration East of the Drakensberg in the Era of Shaka
Appendix C: Interviewees from the James Stuart Collection of Oral Traditions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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