Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa - Oral Traditions and History, 1400-1830

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Elizabeth A. Eldredge

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A Eldredge, Elizabeth A. Eldredge, Elizabeth A. (Customer) Eldredge
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9781580465144
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-514-4
• No. of pages: 450
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 830 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H; Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Südafrika, Politik und Staat, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, History - General History, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, HISTORY / Africa / South / General