The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930

by David Lee Schoenbrun

Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun examines groupwork-the imaginative labor that people do to constitute themselves as communities-in an iconic and influential region in East Africa. His study traces the roots of nationhood in the Ganda...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299332500
• ISBN13: 9780299332501
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"