Paths in the rainforests : toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa / Jan Vansina.

Vansina's scope is breathtaking: he reconstructs the history of the forest lands that cover all or part of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Congo, Zaire, the Central African Republic, and Cabinda in Angola, discussing the original settlement of the forest by the western Bantu; t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vansina, Jan (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1990.
Subjects:	Bantu-speaking peoples > Politics and government. Bantu languages > History. Central Africa. society. history. HISTORY > Africa > Central. Bantu languages Bantu-speaking peoples > Politics and government Politics and government Politik Tradition Bantous > Politique et gouvernement. Langues bantoues > Histoire. Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government. Africa, Central > Politics and government. Central Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Zentralafrika Midden-Afrika. Afrique noire > Jusqu'à 1884. Afrique centrale > Jusqu'à 1884. Afrique noire > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1884. Afrique centrale > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1884. History
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Table of Contents:

Contents
Maps and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Spelling
Chapter One: Voids and Blinders, Words and Things
Chapter Two: The Land and Its Settlement
Chapter Three: Tradition: Ancient and Common
Chapter Four: The Trail of the Leopard in the Inner Basin
Chapter Five: Between Ocean and Rivers
Chapter Six: The Eastern Uplands
Chapter Seven: Challenge from the Atlantic
Chapter Eight: Death of a Tradition
Chapter Nine: On History and Tradition
Appendix: Comparative Lexical Data
Notes

Paths in the rainforests : toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa / Jan Vansina.

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