Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rdxmf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-23T21:33:06.196Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Ethnic Formation with Other-Than-Human Beings: Island Shrine Practice in Uganda’s Long Eighteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2018

Abstract:

Many studies of ethnic formation find metaphors of descent at the core of largely masculinist discourse about belonging and difference. This study integrates the meaning, affect, and information-sharing prompted with the other-than-human beings – in particular, trees – enlisted during rhythmic assembly at an Island shrine in east Africa’s Inland Sea (Lake Victoria), in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Fostering ethnic identification there drew on lateral connections that crossed language, region, and standing without creating boundaries. A gendered discourse exceeding the masculine was likely indispensable to this sort of belonging. The beginning of a long period of bellicose state expansionism and the deep history of public healing in the region framed these developments.

Résumé:

De nombreuses études sur la formation ethnique trouvent des métaphores de la lignée au cœur d’un discours masculin sur l’appartenance et la différence. Cette étude intègre le sens, l’affect et le partage d’informations suscités par les êtres autres qu’humains – en particulier, les arbres – incorporés lors d’un rassemblement rythmique dans un sanctuaire de l’île dans la mer intérieure de l’Afrique de l’Est (lac Victoria), au XVIIIe siècle. La promotion de l’identification ethnique s’est faite à partir de connexions latérales qui dépassent le cadre de la langue, de la région, et du statut sans créer de frontières. Un discours sexué dépassant le masculin était indispensable à ce genre d’appartenance. Le début d’une longue période d’expansionnisme belliqueux d’État et la longue histoire de guérison publique dans la région ont fourni un cadre à ces développements.

Type
Towards Multispecies History
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 2018 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Anderson, David, “The Beginning of Time? Evidence for Catastrophic Drought in Baringo in the Early Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 101 (2016), 4566.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Anonymous, , “Enswa Embala,” Munno 627 (1937), 140.Google Scholar
Barth, Fredrik, “Introduction,” in: Barth, Fredrik (ed.), Ethnic Groups and Boundaries (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969), 938.Google Scholar
Berlin, Brent, Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014 [1992]).Google Scholar
Brubaker, Rogers, Ethnicity Without Groups (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buckley, Thomas, and Gottlieb, Alma, “A Critical Appraisal of Theories of Menstrual Symbolism,” in: Buckley, Thomas and Gottlieb, Alma (eds.), Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 350.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Businge, Makolome Robert, and Martin Diprose, Ntongoli gya Lugungu; Lugungu Dictionary (Hoima: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2012).Google Scholar
Byaruhanga-Akiiki, A.B.T., Religion in Bunyoro (Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1982).Google Scholar
Carpenter, Geoffrey D.H., A Naturalist on Lake Victoria: With an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the Tse-Tse Fly (London: Dutton, 1920).Google Scholar
Chapman, Colin A., Bonnell, Tyler R., Sengupta, Raja, Goldberg, Tony L. and Rothman, Jessica M., “Is Markhamia lutea’s Abundance Determined by Animal Foraging?,” Forest Ecology and Management 308 (2013), 6266.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cohen, David W., “The Cwezi Cult,” Journal of African History 94 (1968), 651657.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cohen, David W., The Historical Tradition of Busoga: Mukama and Kintu (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1972).Google Scholar
Cohen, David W., Womunafu’s Bunafu: A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).Google Scholar
Cohen, David W., “Food Production and Food Exchange in the Precolonial Lakes Plateau Region,” in: Rotberg, Robert I. (ed.), Imperialism, Colonialism, and Hunger: East and Central Africa (Lexington MA: Lexington Books, 1983), 118.Google Scholar
Cook, Albert R., A Medical Vocabulary and Phrase Book in Luganda (Kampala: Uganda Bookshop, 1903).Google Scholar
Cunningham, James F., Uganda and Its Peoples: Notes on the Protectorate of Uganda (London: Hutchinson, 1905).Google Scholar
Cutfield, Sarah, “A Linguistic Analysis of Dalabon Ethnobiology,” 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (2013), http://hdl.handle.net/10125/26062.Google Scholar
Cutler, Winnifred B., “Lunar and Menstrual Phase Locking,” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 13 (1980), 834839.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dawe, M.T., Report on a Botanical Mission through the Forest Districts of Buddu and the Western and Nile Provinces of the Uganda Protectorate (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1906).Google Scholar
Douglas, Mary, “Animals in Lele Religious Symbolism,” Africa 271 (1957), 4658.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Earle, Jonathon L., Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eggeling, William J., and Dale, Ivan R., The Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate (Entebbe: Government Printer, 1952).Google Scholar
Fairhead, James, and Leach, Melissa, “Termites, Society, and Ecology: Perspectives from West Africa,” in: Motte-Florac, Élisabeth and Thomas, Jacqueline M.C. (eds.), Les Insectes dans la Tradition Orale (Leuven: Peeters, 2003), 197219.Google Scholar
Feierman, Steven, The Shambaa Kingdom (Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974).Google Scholar
Feierman, Steven, “Healing as Social Criticism in the Time of Colonial Conqusest,” African Studies 54–1 (1995), 7388.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feierman, Steven, “Colonizers, Scholars, and the Creation of Invisible Histories,” in: Bonnell, Victoria and Hunt, Lynn (eds.), Beyond the Linguistic Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 182216.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feierman, Steven, “On Socially Composed Knowledge: Reconstructing a Shambaa Royal Ritual,” in: Maddox, Gregory and Giblin, James (eds.), In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania (Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2005), 1432.Google Scholar
Fitzsimons, William, “Warfare, Competition, and the Durability of ‘Political Smallness’ in Nineteenth-Century Busoga,” Journal of African History 591 (2018), 4567.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gelorini, Vanessa, and Verschuren, Dirk, “Historical Climate-Human-Ecosystem Interaction in East Africa: A Review,” African Journal of Ecology 513 (2013), 409421.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Giblin, John, and Remigius, Kigongo, “The Social and Symbolic Context of the Royal Potters of Buganda,” Azania 471 (2012), 4680.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Glassman, Jonathon, “Race and Ethnicity in African Thought,” in: Worger, William, Ambler, Charles C. and Achebe, Nwando (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Modern African History (Hoboken NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2018).Google Scholar
Yowana KikulweGomotoka, J.T. Gomotoka, J.T. (translator Kiyaga-Mulindwa, David), “History of Buvuma” (Kampala: unpublished manuscript, n.d. [1930s]).Google Scholar
Greene, Sandra E., “Family Concerns: Gender and Ethnicity in Pre-Colonial West Africa,” International Review of Social History 44S7 (1999), 1531.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hamilton, Alan, A Field Guide to Uganda Forest Trees (Makerere: Makerere University Printer, 1981).Google Scholar
Hamilton, Alan, with Hamilton, Naomi, Mukasa, Phoebe, Ssewanyana, David, Ssentoogo, Cephas and Kabuye, Christine, Luganda Dictionary and Grammar (Godalming: Alan Hamilton Publishing, 2016).Google Scholar
Hanson, Holly E., Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda (Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Publishers, 2003).Google Scholar
Hattersley, Charles W., and Duta, Henry Wright, Luganda Phrases and Idioms (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1904).Google Scholar
Heald, Suzette, “The Power of Sex: Some Reflections on the Caldwells’ ‘African Sexuality’ Thesis,” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 654 (1995), 489505.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hermann, C., “Lusiba, die Sprache der Länder Kisiba, Bugabu, Kjamtwara, Kjanga und Ihangiro,” Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen 7 (1904), 150200.Google Scholar
Hoppe, Kirk, Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900–1960 (Westport CT: Praeger, 2003).Google Scholar
Hoyt, Douglas V., and Schatten, Kenneth H., The Role of the Sun in Climate Change (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Isabirye, Moses, Verbist, Bruno, Magunda, M.K., Poesen, J. and Deckers, J., “Tree Density and Biomass Assessment in Agricultural Systems Around Lake Victoria, Uganda,” African Journal of Ecology 46 (supplement 1) (2008), 5965.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jjumba, Elisa, “Book of the Ssiga of Jumba,” Africana Section, Makerere University Library (Kampala, 1964).Google Scholar
Johnson, Jennifer L., “Fishwork in Uganda: A Multispecies Ethnohistory about Fish, People, and Ideas about Fish and People,” PhD dissertation, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor MI, 2014).Google Scholar
Kagwa, Apolo, Ekitabo kye Mpisa za Baganda (Kampala: Uganda Printing and Publishing Company, 1918).Google Scholar
Kagwa, Apolo, The Customs of the Baganda (translated by Kalibala, Ernest B., edited by Mandelbaum [Edel], May) (New York: Columbia University Press, 1934).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kagwa, Apolo, The Kings of Buganda (translated and edited by Semakula Kiwanuka, M.) (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1971).Google Scholar
Karugire, Samwiri Rubaraza, A History of the Kingdom of Nkore in Western Uganda to 1896 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971).Google Scholar
Katamba, Frances, “Nominal Derivation in Bantu,” in: Nurse, Derek and Philippson, Gérard (eds.), The Bantu Languages (New York: Routledge, 2003), 103120.Google Scholar
Katula, Viktor, “Abadzukulu ba Sekabaka Kagulu: Ekiyigganyizo eky’okubiri,” Munno 149, 136137 (1924).Google Scholar
Katula, Viktor, “Abadzukulu ba Sekabaka Kagulu,” Munno 1411 (1924), 155156.Google Scholar
Kayaga Gonza, Richard, Lusoga-English, English-Lusoga Dictionary (Kampala: MK Publishers, 2007).Google Scholar
Kenny, Michael, “Powers of Lake Victoria,” Anthropos 725/6 (1977), 713733.Google Scholar
Kiingi, Kibuuka Balubuliza, Enkuluze y’Oluganda ey’e Makerere (Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2007).Google Scholar
Kitching, Arthur Leonard, and Blackledge, George Robert, A Luganda-English and English-Luganda Dictionary (Kampala: Uganda Bookshop, 1925).Google Scholar
Klieman, Kairn A.,“The Pygmies Were Our Compass:” Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E. (Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Publishers, 2003).Google Scholar
Kodesh, Neil, “Networks of Knowledge: Clanship and Collective Wellbeing,” Journal of African History 492 (2008), 197216.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kodesh, Neil, Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda (Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia Press, 2010).Google Scholar
Kopytoff, Igor, “Introduction,” in: Kopytoff, Igor (ed.), The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1987), 384.Google Scholar
Kövecses, Zoltan, Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Landau, Paul, The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom (Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Publishers, 1995).Google Scholar
Langdale-Brown, I., Osmaston, Henry A. and Wilson, J.G., The Vegetation of Uganda and its Bearing on Land Use (Entebbe: Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Uganda, 1964).Google Scholar
Law, Sung Ping, “The Regulation of Menstrual Cycle and Its Relationship to the Moon,” Acta Obstetricia Gynecological Scandinavica 65 (1986), 4548.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Le Veux, Henri, Premier Essai de Vocabulaire Luganda-Français d’après l’Ordre Étymologique (Maison-Carrée: Imprimerie des Missionaires d’Afrique [Pères Blancs], 1917).Google Scholar
Lonsdale, John, “Moral & Political Argument in Kenya,” in: Berman, Bruce, Eyoh, Dickson and Kymlicka, Will (eds.), Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa (Oxford: James Currey, 2004), 7395.Google Scholar
Lonsdale, John, “Unhelpful Pasts and a Provisional Present,” in: Hunter, Emma (ed.), Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa: Dialogues between Past and Present (Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2016), 1740.Google Scholar
Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga, Kintu (Nairobi: Kwani Trust, 2014).Google Scholar
McClintock, Martha K., “Menstrual Synchrony and Suppression,” Nature 229 (1971), 244245.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McClintock, Martha K., “Social Control of the Ovarian Cycle and the Function of Oestrus Synchrony,” American Zoologist 21 (1981), 243256.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Médard, Henri, Le Royaume du Buganda au XIXe Siècle (Paris: Karthala, 2007).Google Scholar
Mukanga, A., “The Traditional Belief in Balubaale,” Occasional Research Papers in African Religions and Philosophies 17–167 (1974).Google Scholar
Mulira, Eridadi M.K., and Ndawula, E.G.M., A Luganda-English and English-Luganda Dictionary (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1952).Google Scholar
Musisi, Nakanyike B., “Women, ‘Elite Polygyny,’ and Buganda State Formation,” Signs 164 (1991), 757786.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Musoke, Fred G., “The Importance of the Banana Plant to the Buganda Culture,” BA Thesis, Makerere University (Kampala, 1975).Google Scholar
Mutiat Bolanle Ibrahim, Nutan Kaushik, Sowemimo, Abimbola Adepeju and Odukoya, Olukemi A., “Review of the Phytochemical and Pharmacological Studies of the Genus Markhamia,” Pharmacognosy Review 10 (2016), 5059.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Muzale, Henry, Ruhaya-English-Kiswahili Dictionary (Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam Press, 2006).Google Scholar
Nsamba, Yolamu Ndoleriire, Mystique in Sovereigns’ Headgear: A Historical Journey via Bunyoro, Uganda (Wandsbeck: Reach Publishers, 2016).Google Scholar
Nsimbi, Michael B., Amannya Amaganda n’Ennono Zaago [Ganda Names and Their Meaning] (Kampala: Longmans, 1980 [1956]).Google Scholar
Nyakatura, John, Abakama ba Kitara: Abatembuzi, Abacwezi, Ababito (St. Justin, Quebec: W.-H. Gagne & Sons, 1947).Google Scholar
Nyakatura, John (translated by Kwamya, Zeibya), Aspects of Bunyoro Customs and Traditions (Kampala: East African Literature Bureau, 1970).Google Scholar
Nyanzi, Stella, Nassimbwa, Justine, Kayizzi, Vincent and Kabanda, Strivan, “‘African Sex is Dangerous!’ Renegotiating ‘Ritual Sex’ in Contemporary Masaka District,” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 784 (2008), 518539.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nzogi, Richard, and Diprose, Martin, Ekideero ky’oLugwere; Lugwere Dictionary (Budaka: SIL Press, 2012).Google Scholar
Osmaston, Henry A., “The Termite and its Uses for Food,” Uganda Journal 151 (1951), 8083.Google Scholar
Pilkington, George L., Luganda-English and English-Luganda Vocabulary (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1899).Google Scholar
Ray, Benjamin, Myth, Ritual and Kingship in Buganda (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).Google Scholar
Reid, Andrew, and Ashley, Ceri Z., “Islands of Agriculture on Victoria Nyanza,” in: Stevens, Chris J., Nixon, Sam, Anne Murray, Mary and Fuller, Dorian Q. (eds.), Archaeology of African Plant Use (Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press, 2014), 179188.Google Scholar
Reid, Richard, “The Ganda on Lake Victoria: A Nineteenth-Century East African Imperialism,” Journal of African History 393 (1998), 349363.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reid, Richard, Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda (Oxford: James Currey Publishers, 2002).Google Scholar
Roddick, Andrew P., and Stahl, Ann B., “Introduction: Knowledge in Motion,” in: Roddick, Andrew P. and Stahl, Ann B. (eds.), Knowledge in Motion: Constellations of Learning Across Time and Place (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 335.Google Scholar
Rodegem, Francis, Dictionnaire Rundi-Français (Tervuren: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, 1970).Google Scholar
Roncoli, Carla, Ingram, Keith and Kirshen, Paul, “Reading the Rains: Local Knowledge and Rainfall Forecasting Among Farmers of Burkina Faso,” Society for Natural Resources 15 (2002), 411430.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roscoe, John, The Baganda: An Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs (London: Macmillan and Co., 1911).Google Scholar
Rowe, John, “Myth, Memoir, and Moral Admonition: Luganda Historical Writing, 1893–1960,” Uganda Journal 33 (1979), 17–40, 217219.Google Scholar
Russell, James M., Verschuren, Dirk and Eggermont, Hilde, “Spatial Complexity of ‘Little Ice Age’ Climate in East Africa: Sedimentary Records from Two Crater Lake Basins in Western Uganda,” The Holocene 172 (2007), 183193.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schabel, Hans G., Forest Entomology in East Africa: Forest Insects of Tanzania (New York: Springer Publishers, 2006).Google Scholar
Schmidt, Peter R., Historical Archaeology: A Structural Approach in an African Society (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1978).Google Scholar
Schoenbrun, David L., A Green Place, A Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century (Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Publishers, 1998).Google Scholar
Schoenbrun, David L., “A Mask of Calm: Emotion and Founding the Kingdom of Bunyoro in the Sixteenth Century,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 553 (2013), 634664.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schoenbrun, David L., “Pythons Worked: Constellating Communities of Practice with Conceptual Metaphor in Northern Lake Victoria, ca. A.D. 800 to 1200,” in: Roddick, Andrew P. and Stahl, Ann B. (eds.), Knowledge in Motion: Constellations of Learning Across Time and Place (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 216246.Google Scholar
Schoenbrun, David L., “The Names of the Python: Toward a History of Ethnic Formation in East Africa Before 1900,” unpublished manuscript, Northwestern University (Evanston IL, 2017).Google Scholar
Semakula Kiwanuka, M.S.M., A History of Buganda: From the Foundation of the Kingdom to 1900 (New York: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1972).Google Scholar
Silow, Carl-Axel, Notes on Ngangela and Nkoya Ethnozoology: Ants and Termites [Etnologiska Studier 36] (Göteborg: Göteborgs Etnografiska Museum, 1983).Google Scholar
Snoxall, Ronald A., Luganda-English Dictionary (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967).Google Scholar
Speke, John Hanning, Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863).Google Scholar
Ssemmanda, Immaculate, et al., “Vegetation History in Western Uganda during the Last 1200 Years: A Sediment-based Reconstruction from Two Crater Lakes,” The Holocene 151(20005), 119–132.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stager, J. Curt, Cumming, Brian and David Meeker, L., “A 10,000-year High-resolution Diatom Record from Pilkington Bay, Lake Victoria, East Africa,” Quaternary Research 59 (2003), 171182.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stager, J. Curt, et al., ”Solar Variability and the Levels of Lake Victoria, East Africa, During the Last Millennium,” Journal of Paleolimnology 33 (2005), 243251.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stanley, Henry Morton, Through the Dark Continent or The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean, volume 1 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1969 [1878]).Google Scholar
Stanley, Henry Morton, My Dark Companions and The Strange Stories They Tell (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893).Google Scholar
Stapf, Otto, et al., “Plantae Novae Daweanae in Uganda Lectae,” Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 37 (1906), 495544.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stark, Timo D., Salger, Mathias, Frank, Oliver, Balemba, Onesmo B., Wakamatsu, Junichiro and Hofmann, Thomas, “Antioxidative Compounds from Garcinia buchananii Stem Bark,” Jounal of Natural Products 782 (2015), 234240. doi: 10.1021/np5007873.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stephens, Rhiannon, A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Strück, Bernhard, “African Ideas on the Subject of Earthquakes,” Journal of the Royal African Society 832 (1909), 398411.Google Scholar
Stuhlmann, Franz, Mit Emin Pascha ins Herz von Afrika (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Press, 1894).Google Scholar
Tantala, Renée, “The Early History of Kitara in Western Uganda: Process Models of Religious and Political Change,” PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin (Madison WI, 1989).Google Scholar
Taylor, John R., and Mbense, Thandi, “Red Dogs and Rotten Mealies: How Zulus Talk about Anger,” in: Athanasiadou, Angeliki and Tabakowska, Elzbieta (eds.), Speaking of Emotions: Conceptualisation and Expression (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), 191226.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thomas, A.S., “The Vegetation of Sese Islands, Uganda: An Illustration of Edaphic Factors in Tropical Ecology,” Journal of Ecology 292 (1941), 330353.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Trowell, Margaret, “Some Royal Craftsmen of Buganda,” Uganda Journal 82 (1941), 4764.Google Scholar
Tsing, Anna L., “Unruly Edges,” Environmental Humanities 11 (2012), 141154.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Twinamatsiko, Nick, The Cwezi Code (Kampala: Pilgrims Publications, 2010).Google Scholar
Van de Walle, Etienne, and Renne, Elisha (eds.), Regulating Menstruation: Beliefs, Practices, Interpretations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).Google Scholar
Vansina, Jan, Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa (Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990).Google Scholar
Vansina, Jan, Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom (Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).Google Scholar
Walser, Ferdinand, Luganda Proverbs (London: Mill Hill Missionaries, 1982).Google Scholar
Wilson, Charles T., An Outline Grammar of the Luganda Language (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1882).Google Scholar
Wilson, H. Clyde, “A Critical Review of Menstrual Synchrony Research,” Psychoneuroendocrinology 17 (1992), 565591.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Worger, William, “Parsing God: Conversations about the Meaning of Words and Metaphors in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa,” Journal of African History 423 (2001), 417447.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wrigley, Christopher, Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yang, Zhengwei, and Schank, Jeffrey C., “Women do not Synchronize their Menstrual Cycles,” Human Nature (2006), 433447.CrossRefGoogle Scholar