The land beyond the mists
Subtitle: essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda
By: David Newbury ; foreword by Jan Vansina.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821418741; 9780821418758
Subjects: Ethnology -- Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda); Ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic); Ethnology -- Rwanda; Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- History; Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- Historiography; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Historiography; Rwanda -- History; Rwanda -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bushi and the historians : historiographical themes in eastern Kivu; title: Recent historical research in the area of Lake Kivu : Rwanda and Zaire; title: Lake Kivu regional trade in the nineteenth century; title: Kamo and lubambo : dual genesis traditions on Ijwi Island; title: The campaigns of Rwabugiri; title: Rwabugiri and Ijwi; title: King and chief on Ijwi Island; title: The clans of Rwanda : a historical hypothesis; title: Bunyabungo : the western frontier in Rwanda, ca. 1750-1850; title: What role has kingship? : an analysis of the Umuganura ritual in Rwanda as presented in M. d'Hertefelt and A. Coupez, la royauté sacrée de l'ancien Rwanda; title: Trick cyclists? : recontextualizing Rwandan dynastic chronology; title: Precolonial Burundi and Rwanda : local loyalties, regional royalties.