ISBN: 9781107030800

This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural, and political life. The book … mais…

This history of African motherhood over the longue durée 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. New Textbooks>Hardcover>World History>Africa History>Africa History, Cambridge University Press Core >2 >T<

ISBN: 9781107030800

Hardback, [PU: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS], This is the first book-length treatment of the history of motherhood in pre-colonial Africa. This book takes a new approach to longue duree Afr… mais…

Hardback, [PU: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS], This is the first book-length treatment of the history of motherhood in pre-colonial Africa. This book takes a new approach to longue duree African history through a focus on a highly gendered social institution, and changes our understanding of social and political organization in a region depicted as intensely patriarchal., Social & Cultural History<

ISBN: 9781107030800

A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700?1900 A-History-of-African-Motherhood~~Rhiannon-Stephens World History>Africa History>Africa History Hardcover, Cambridge Universit… mais…

A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700?1900 A-History-of-African-Motherhood~~Rhiannon-Stephens World History>Africa History>Africa History Hardcover, Cambridge University Press<

2013, ISBN: 9781107030800

The Case of Uganda, 700-1900, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Cambridge University Press]