A history of African motherhood : the case of Uganda, 700-1900
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A history of African motherhood : the case of Uganda, 700-1900
（African studies series）
Cambridge University Press, 2015, c2013
- : pbk
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"First paperback edition 2015"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 195-210
Includes index
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Description
This history of African motherhood over the longue duree demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut across patrilineal and cultural-linguistic divides. The importance of motherhood as an ideology and a social institution meant that in chiefdoms and kingdoms queen mothers were powerful officials who legitimated the power of kings. This was the case in Buganda, the many kingdoms of Busoga, and the polities of Bugwere. By taking a long-term perspective from c.700 to 1900 CE and using an interdisciplinary approach - drawing on historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, and oral traditions and literature, as well as archival sources - this book shows the durability, mutability and complexity of ideologies of motherhood in this region.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Writing pre-colonial African history: words and other historical fragments
- 2. Motherhood in North Nyanza, eighth through the twelfth century
- 3. Consolidation and adaptation: the politics of motherhood in early Buganda and South Kyoga, thirteenth through the fifteenth century
- 4. Mothering the kingdoms: Buganda, Busoga, and East Kyoga, sixteenth through the eighteenth century
- 5. Contesting the authority of mothers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Conclusion.
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