000			02152pam a2200325 i 4500
001			30158806
003			OCoLC
005			20241111144858.0
008			940324s1995 enkb b s001 0 eng
020			_a0852557183
020			_a0852557175
040			_cUMI
082	0	0	_a291.63 _220 _bREV
245	0	0	_aRevealing prophets : _bprophecy in Eastern African history / _cedited by David M. Anderson and Douglas H. Johnson
264		1	_aLondon : _bJames Curry, _cc1995
264		1	_aAthens : _bOhio University Press, _cc1995
300			_ax, 310 pages : _bmaps ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aEastern African studies
500			_aTable of Contents 1. Revealing Prophets / Douglas H. Johnson and David M. Anderson Part. 1. Prophetic Idioms. 2. Kidongoi's Kin: Prophecy & Power in Maasailand / Richard D. Waller. 3. Fertility as Power: Spirit Mediums, Priestesses & the Precolonial State in Interlacustrine East Africa / Iris Berger. 4. The Frontiers of Prophecy: Healing, the Cosmos & Islam on the East African Coast in the Nineteenth Century / David Sperling. 5. Modern Zande Prophetesses / Margaret Buckner Part. 2. Colonial Historiographies. 6. Maji-Maji: Prophecy & Historiography / Marcia Wright. 7. The Colonial Control of Spirit Cults in Uganda / Holger Bernt Hansen. 8. Visions of the Vanquished: Prophets & Colonialism in Kenya's Western Highlands / David M. Anderson Part. 3. Prophetic Histories. 9. The Prophet Ngundeng & the Battle of Pading: Prophecy, Symbolism & Historical Evidence / Douglas H. Johnson. 10. 'What is the World Going to Come to?': Prophecy & Colonialism in Central Kenya / Charles Ambler. 11. The Prayers of Waiyaki: Political Uses of the Kikuyu Past / John Lonsdale
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
650		0	_aProphets _zAfrica, East _xHistory
651		0	_aAfrica, East _xReligion
700	1		_aAnderson, David, _d1957-
700	1		_aJohnson, Douglas Hamilton, _d1949-
830		0	_aEastern African studies (London, England)
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c10839 _d10839