Elizabeth A. Eldredge

Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa (eBook, PDF)

Oral Traditions and History, 1400-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines indigenous oral traditions and histories in order to explain the factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms in nineteenth-century southeastern Africa.

This study traces the social and political history of the peoples of early precolonial southeastern Africa, including the regions of modern KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, southern Mozambique from Maputo Bay southward, and Lesotho. Theemergence in the early nineteenth century of well-known southern African kingdoms such as the AmaZulu, AmaSwazi, and BaSotho kingdoms was the culmination of centuries of sociopolitical developments, during which political controlwas consolidated in the ruling descent lines of small-scale chiefdoms. Providing the first comprehensive scholarly examination of recorded oral traditions from southeastern Africa, Eldredge's work chronicles the events and life stories propelling this consolidation and the advent of large-scale chiefdoms and kingdoms..

Elizabeth A. Eldredge is an independent scholar and author of The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828: War, Shaka, and the Consolidation of Power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580468763
• Artikelnr.: 56163578

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Eldredge

Inhaltsangabe

Preface History and Oral Traditions in Southeastern Africa Oral Traditions
in the Reconstruction of Southern African History Shipwreck Survivor
Accounts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Founding Families and
Chiefdoms East of the Drakensberg Maputo Bay Peoples and Chiefdoms before
1740 Maputo Bay, 1740-1820 Eastern Chiefdoms of Southern Africa, 1740-1815
Zulu Conquests and the Consolidation of Power, 1815-21 Military Campaigns,
Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration Ancestors, Descent Lines, and
Chiefdoms West of the Drakensberg before 1820 The Caledon River Valley and
the BaSotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33 The Expansion of the European Presence
at Maputo Bay, 1821-33 Southern African Kingdoms on the Eve of Colonization
Appendix A: AmaSwazi King List Appendix B: Chronology of Conflicts,
Migrations, and Political Reconfiguration East of the Drakensberg in the
Era of Shaka Appendix C: Interviewees from the James Stuart Collection of
Oral Traditions Notes Bibliography Index