Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Python Imaginaries: Conceiving Ancient Groups beyond the Face-to-Face, 800 to 1200
2. Possessing an Inland Sea: Making Mukasa, 1200s to 1600s
3. Mukasa’s Wealth: Belonging and Information, 1500s and 1600s
4. Vigilant Python: A Bellicose Eighteenth Century and Groupwork’s Inner Edge
5. Ladies and Slaves: Gendered Groupwork and a Long Nineteenth Century
6. Hiding Clans: Eighteenth-Century Misrule and Twentieth-Century Groupwork
Conclusion
Appendix: Lexical-Semantic Reconstructions
Notes
Bibliography
Index