Description: WOMUNAFU'S BUNAFU A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community ••• By David William Cohen Princeton University Press 1977 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1924. First Edition. Very Good+ or Better, in Very Good+ Jacket. This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized as an infant to be possessed by Mukama, the spirit of a heroic figure in the tradition of the wider region, Womunafu was placed in a large enclosure, one of four he would occupy from 1830 until his death in 1906. During his long life Womunafu had many wives and children and achieved a position of dominance in the village that came to be known as Bunafu. In considering his life, David William Cohen offers an unusual study of the process through which authority was organized in a pre-colonial African community and advances the study of political institutions and change. His study also explores the nature of evidence regarding African history. By assessing the usefulness of various kinds of oral data and attempting to render the "moving contexts" of the past, the author makes significant methodological contributions to the disciplines of history and anthropology. Index. Tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Size: 5¾” x 9”. 226 pages. Something Old, Something New Something Curious Just for You. Check it out! SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! We Combine Shipping "Books for Every Mind and Every Mood" ________________________________________________________________ Unlike large Book Warehouses that acquire used book donations and ship via 3rd party cut-rate shipping companies. We are a small independent bookseller that purchases our stock from collections and estates. Our stock is handpicked for quality, scarcity, and Interest. We do not ship in quantities that would allow cut-rate shipping, nor do we combine book cost with shipping and call it it free shipping. We keep our prices low, ship promptly
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Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Special Attributes: Maps
Author: David William Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Topic: Africa Studies
Subject: Biography
Character Family: Bunafu
Original/Facsimile: Original
