Clan leaders and colonial chiefs in Lango : the political history of an East African stateless society c. 1800-1939 / by John Tosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tosh, John.

Series:

Oxford studies in African affairs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lango (African people).

Politics and government.

Lango, Uganda--Politics and government.

Lango, Uganda.

Lango (African people)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xi, 293 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.

Contents:

Introduction: Stateless Societies and the Historian in Africa 1

1. Environment, Economy, and Settlement: The Formation of a Lango Identity 17

2. Social Groups in Nineteenth-Century Lango 35

3. Pre-Colonial Clan Leadership 64

4. The Zenith and Collapse of Regional Leadership 88

5. The Politics of Pacification 110

6. The Formation of a Chiefly Hierarchy 150

7. Power and Patronage in the Colonial Bureaucracy 181

8. The System Scrutinized 219

1. The Origins of the Langi 251

2. The Organization and Conduct of Fieldwork in Lango District 260

3. Two Oral Testimonies 265

4. Oral Sources 275.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages [276]-286.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0198227116 :

OCLC:

4683296