Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda

by Benjamin C. Ray

Buganda was the most prominent of the four traditional Bantu kingdoms of Uganda, which ceased to exist when the country was declared a Republic in 1967. The Kabakaship (kingship), the central institution of Buganda, was saturated with rituals and mythic images. Based on fieldwork and using extensive Luganda-language source material, this book describes and interprets the myths, rituals, shrines, and sacred regalia of the kingship within the changing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064364
• ISBN13: 9780195064360
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"