Author: Tosh, John
Title: Clan Leaders and Colonial Chiefs in Lango: The Political History of an East African Stateless Society c. 1800-1939
Description: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, xvi,293 pp, Series: Oxford Studies in African Affairs.. Textual maps.. Minor rubbing.Some light binding stains. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Stateless Societies & the Historian in Africa; Environment, Economy & Settlement: The Formation of a Lango Identity; Social Groups in 19th-Century Lango; Pre-Colonial Clan Leadership; The Zenith & Collapse of Regional Leadership; The Politics of Pacification; The Formation of a Chiefly Hierarchy; Power & Patronage in the Colonial Bureaucracy; The System Scrutinized; Conclusion; Appendices: The Origin of the Langi; The Organization & Conduct of Fieldwork in Lango District; Two Oral Testimonies; Oral Sources.

Keywords: African Colonial History, East Africa, Langi Tribe, Uganda Ethnography, Anthropology, Tribal Government, Lango Politics, Stateless State, Sociology Social, Political