The Rainbow and the Kings A History of the Luba Empire to 1891 1st Edition by Thomas Reefe ISBN 0520334914 9780520334915

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ISBN 10: 0520334914

ISBN 13: 9780520334915

Author:  Thomas Q. Reefe 

The Rainbow and the Kings: A History of the Luba Empire to 1891 1st Edition: This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

 

The Rainbow and the Kings: A History of the Luba Empire to 1891 1st Edition Table of contents:

I. Introduction

• Terms and concepts

II. Sources

• Phrases and mnemonic codes
• Narrative histories and men of memory
• The Bambudye—a Luba secret society
• Published sources
• Colonial documents

III. The myth

• The Luba genesis myth
• Transmission of the genesis myth

IV. The charter

• Legitimizing ideology and institutions
• The Bambudye—charter and control

V. Kings and chronology

• Kinglists
• Chronology
• From the rainbow to the kings

VI. The early record

• The Upemba Depression: The archeological record and the ecological perspective
• Patrilineal peoples and the matrilineal belt: The ethnographic perspective
• Nkongolo/The Rainbow: The linguistic perspective

VII. Pyramids upon pyramids

• Stage 1: The sacred center
• Factors in early state formation
• Stage 2: Symbols of assimilation from the heartland to the Zaire and Luembe Rivers

VIII. Savanna trade

• Luba-Songye trade
• Samba and the Copperbelt
• Empire emergent: A summary

IX. Dynastic history in the eighteenth century

• Patterns of conquest during the age of kings
• The generations of kings Ndaye Mwine Nkombe and Kadilo, ca. 1690 (± 24 years) to ca. 1750 (± 16 years)
• The generation of King Kekenya, ca. 1750 (± 16 years) to ca. 1780 (± 12 years)

X. The generation of King Ilunga Sungu, ca. 1780 (± 12 years) to ca. 1810 (± 8 years)

• Succession struggle and dynastic crisis
• Defeat in the west: Mutombo Mukulu and the Kanyok Kingdom
• New tributaries in the east: The Luvua-Lukuga Corridor and the Fire Kingdom of Kyombo Mkubwa

XI. The generation of King Kumwimbe Ngombe, ca. 1810 (± 8 years) to ca. 1840 (± 4 years)

• Succession struggles and consolidation
• Expansion toward the northeast: The Fire Kingdom of Buki
• Expansion toward the southeast
• Kinkondja and Mulongo: Securing the Zaire River crossing
• From the Upper Zaire to the Luvua
• Kumwimbe Ngombe versus Kanyembo (Kazembe IV)

XII. The generation of King Ilunga Kabale, ca. 1840 (± 4 years) to ca. 1870

• Succession struggles and consolidation
• East of the Upper Zaire River
• Between the Lubudi River and the Upper Zaire River: Lubende
• The Luba-Songye frontier: Northwest, north, and northeast
• The death of King Ilunga Kabale, ca. 1870
• The age of kings: An assessment

XIII. The conquest undone: The loss of the frontiers

• The end of Luba rule, 1860s to 1891
• The Arab-Swahili and the rise of Tippu Tip
• The Luba-Songye borderland
• Msiri and the frontiers to the south and east
• Conquest states: The new political order

XIV. Disintegration at the center

• The Ovimbundu way
• The succession struggle, ca. 1870 to 1891
• Violence in the heartland during the Ovimbundu era
• Epilogue

XV. Conclusions and comparisons

• Finding history in the forest of symbols
• Trade and tribute
• Population density and state formation and growth
• Lineage politics: Gaining a competitive edge and losing it

 

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