Lineage and Society in Precolonial Uganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8979472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rhiannon Stephens (0000-0002-9816-952X, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 203-221 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853709004435 |
| OpenAlex | W2145423851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines the changing nature of patrilineality in east-central Uganda from the sixth century. While traditional anthropological models of lineality have been largely dismissed in recent scholarship, the problem remains that patrilineages and patriclans have played important roles in the lives of the Ganda, Gwere, Soga and their North Nyanza ancestors. By carefully examining changes and continuities in the form and content of patrilineality it becomes possible to understand it as historically contingent. In North Nyanza, patrilineal descent was the norm for inheritance and for household formation, but relationships formed through mothers were also crucial in the creation of new communities and in the legitimation of political power. This was not static: as communities negotiated their changing circumstances, so they adapted the form of their particular patrilineality to serve their needs
Biology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Legitimation · Lineage (genetic · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
Women in Pre-colonial Africa
Women in Pre-colonial Africa
On the origin of the royal Kongo title ngangula
Slavery and Slaving in African History
Désordre colonial dans la propriété
Past and Presentism
Towards a Socialised Archaeology of Ceramics in Great Lakes Africa
Child Fostering and Family Size Preferences in Uganda
Mixing, Moving, Making, Meaning
Thinking Across the African Past
African Population History
Hunting Reputations
A Mask of Calm
The development of iron technology in precolonial western Uganda
Whatever is bad goes back to the woman
Whether They Promised Each Other Some Thing Is Difficult to Work Out
The Path of the Leopard
Denkyira in the Making of Asante C . 1660–1720
We Are What We Eat
Untangling the Many Roots of West African Mangrove Rice Farming
Pots, Words and the Bantu Problem
Late Stone Age and Early Iron Age Settlement in the Interlacustrine Region
Human impact in the Interlacustrine region
Changing Representations in Central African History
Networks of Knowledge
The Royal Women of Buganda
The Political Transformation of Northern Busoga, 1600-1900
Nyoro Marriage and Affinity
History from the Healer's Shrine
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |