The Land beyond the Mists

Essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda

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ID8090343
AuthorsDavid Newbury (0000-0001-5645-8860, corresponding author), David S Newbury, Jan Vansina
Year2009
Pages444
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueLand Beyond the Mists (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOhio University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/book.7025
OpenAlexW2365166237
ISBN9780821443408
Open LibraryOL24115256M
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The horrific tragedies of Central Africa in the 1990s riveted the attention of the world. But these crises did not occur in a historical vacuum. By peering through the mists of the past, the case studies presented in The Land Beyond the Mists illustrate the significant advances to have taken place since decolonization in our understanding of the pre-colonial histories of Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Congo. Based on both oral and written sources, these essays are important both for their methods-viewing history from the perspective of local actors-and for their conclusions, which seriously c

Archaeology · Geography · Pure land · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Africa · Congo (democratic republic) · Ethnology · Historiography · History · Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) · Postcolonialism · Rwanda

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