Author: Charles W. HattersleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ganda (African people).
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Baganda at Home
Author: Charles W. HattersleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ganda (African people).
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Oral Tradition of the Baganda of Uganda
Author: Immaculate N. KizzaPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456051
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Baganda people of Uganda enjoy an extraordinarily rich oral tradition, which serves as a window into their culture, history, and experiences as a people. This comprehensive, multigenre work is both a study of the Baganda people's oral literature--framed within the broader contexts of the African oral tradition genre, modern African literature, and global literary studies--and a collection of representative stories. Cultural explanations throughout the text explore the living culture of this unique East African nation. Particular attention is paid to the history of Uganda, thus placing the oral tradition within its proper context. An appendix offers sample Luganda songs.
The Baganda
Author: John RoscoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Baakisimba
Author: Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-TamusuzaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456593
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967, baakisimba dance began to be performed in other contexts, with women sometimes playing the accompanying drums-traditionally a man's role-and with men occasionally performing the dance.Sylivia Nannyonga-Tamusuza argues that the music and dance of the Baganda people are not simply reflective of culture; baakisimba participates in the construction of social relations, and helps determine how these relations shape the performing arts. Integrating a study of foregrounds the conceptualization of gender as a time-specific cultural phenomenon. Illuminating the complex relationship between baakisimba and Baganda culture, this path breaking volume bridges the gaps in previous scholarship that integrates music and dance in ethnomusicological scholarship.
The Sunday at Home
Author: Our Missions
Author: A History of Modern Uganda
Author: Richard J. ReidPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108210295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and examines key points of rupture and transition in Uganda's history, emphasising dramatic political and social change in the precolonial era, especially during the nineteenth century, and he also examines the continuing repercussions of these developments in the colonial and postcolonial periods. By considering the ways in which historical culture and consciousness has been ever present - in political discourse, art and literature, and social relationships - Reid defines the true extent of Uganda's viable national history.
Braving Home
Author: Jake HalpernPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544635388
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A journalist visits five of America’s disaster-zone towns and the devoted residents who chose to stay despite hellish conditions. As a young reporter, Jake Halpern became obsessed with stories about "some outlandish and often hellish place inhabited by a handful of stalwarts who refused to leave." His fellow reporters joked with him and nicknamed him the Bad Homes Correspondent. But the more he learned about these people, the more he was drawn to them. Braving Home is Halpern’s irresistible portrait of these hometowns and his friendships with their most loyal residents. In North Carolina, Halpern meets a retired mill worker who single-handedly manned his hometown in the wake of a devastating flood. In Alaska, he visits a lone snowbound high-rise at the foot of a glacier. At the base of a Hawaiian volcano, he stays with a hermit whose house was surrounded by molten lava. Among the glitterati of Malibu, a longtime "hillbilly" teaches him the traditions of firefighting. And on a barrier island off the coast of Louisiana, a legendary storm rider tells of surviving hurricanes—even if it means tying one's hair to a tree. Throughout his journey, Halpern explores the value of rootedness in an age when American society is more mobile than ever.
The Baganda at Home
Author: C. W. HattersleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ganda (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Uganda
Author: Philip BriggsPublisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 1841624675
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Uganda is the most comprehensive resource available providing visitors with all the advice you need.