Kings and Clans: Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840

by David S. Newbury

This book questions the assumption that clans, as traditionally defined by anthropologists and historians, are static structures that hamper political centralization. By reconstructing the history of kings and clans in the Kivu Rift Valley at a time of critical social change, this book enlarges our understanding of social process and the growth of state power in Africa.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299128903
• ISBN13: 9780299128906
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 371 Pages