Systems of belonging, Including Ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways in which we are included in or excluded from specific identifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun examines groupwork-the imaginative labor that people do to constitute themselves as communities in an iconic and influential region in East Africa within the past millenium. He shows Africans formed groups beyond the face-to-face, working from shrines, without writing.

1. Bantu--speaking peoples?Victoria, lake. 2. Region?Ethnic identity?History. 3. Ethnic groups?Victoria, Lake, Region?History. 4. Clans?Victoria, Lake, Region?History. 5. Social groups?Victoria, Lake, Region?History. 6. Victoria, Lake, Region?Ethnic relations?History. 7. Victoria, Lake, Region?Social conditions. 8. Buganda?Ethnic relations?History. 9. Buganda?Social conditions.