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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The Traditions of the Early Kings of Buganda: Myth, History, and Structural Analysis
Author:Atkinson, R.R.
Year:1975
Periodical:History in Africa
Volume:2
Pages:17-57
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subjects:Buganda polity
history
myths (form)
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171464
Abstract:Aim is to demonstrate that the traditions surrounding the first eight kings of Buganda's traditional history can be analysed structurally as myth. These traditions contain two dominant structural themes (political relations dominated by king/anti-king oppositions and sex relations dominated by an opposition between actual sexual of tenses and false charges of seual offenses) and numerous secondary structural themes. The article indicates for each of the eight kings the particular variants on these themes. Chart, notes.
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