Author: Vansina, Jan
Title: The Children of Woot. A History of the Kuba Peoples
Description: Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, (1978). orig.cloth. xi,394 pp. 23x15cm.. Textual maps & tables. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: "The People of the King"; A Past Remembered: The Kuba & Their History; Kuba Genesis; Tales About the Kings; A Past Interpreted: The Means of Interpretation; The Forebears; The Age of Chiefs; The Age of Kings: Administrative History; Power & Politics; The Hoe & the Cowrie: Economics; White Porcelain Clay: Religion; Shapes in the Past: The Visual Arts; Reflections; Appendices.

Keywords: Kuba Polity, Bantu Peoples, Zaire Congo, Political, Social Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnography, Colonial History, Ethnohistory