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Joseph C. Miller. Kings and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu States in Angola. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. xvi + 312 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, index, glossary. $22.00 - William F. PruittJr. “An Independent People: The Salampasu of Luisa Territory.” Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1974. 535 pp. Maps, appendix, bibliography. (This and the following theses available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich., at $8.25 microfilm, $16.50 paper.) - Thomas Q. Reefe. “A History of the Luba Empire to c.1885.” Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1975. 280 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, bibliography. - Muzong Wanda Kodi. “A Pre-Colonial History of the Pende People (Republic of Zaire) from 1620 to 1900.” Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1976. 2 vols., 409 pp. Maps, appendix, bibliography. - Robert Schecter. “History and Historiography on a Frontier of Lunda Expansion: The Origins and Early Development of the Kanongesha.” Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1976. 375 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography. - John C. Yoder. “A People on the Edge of Empires: A History of the Kanyok of Central Zaire.” Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1977. 395 pp. Maps, tables, plates, appendix, bibliography. - J. Jeffrey Hoover. “The Seduction of Ruwej: Reconstructing Ruund History (The Nuclear Lunda; Zaire, Angola, Zambia).” Ph.D. thesis, Yale University, New Haven, 1978. 2 vols., 384 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, bibliography.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

J. Jeffrey Hoover
J. Jeffrey Hoover*
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Foreign Area Studies, The American University
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Oral History: Techniques, New Findings, Critiques
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ASA Review of Books , Volume 5 , 1979 , pp. 64 - 69
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1979

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1 Vansina, Jan, The Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978).Google Scholar Reefe's work will be published as The Rainbow and the Kings: A History of the Luba Empire to 1891 (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming). This list is not exhaustive. Researchers overseas and especially Zairian candidates for license and doctorat degrees have contributed important local studies, but these works are not yet widely available in microfilm or published form.

2 Bantu names are here written without prefix (cf. Imgangala), except “aMbundu” for the kiMbundu-speaking ethnic group of north-central Angola (Miller's “Mbundu”) and “oviMbundu” for the distinct uMbundu-speaking people of south-central Angola.

3 Miller has elsewhere argued strongly that the “Jaga” of Angolan documents are not the same as the Mbangala of more recent centuries. The Portuguese and the settled agricultural peoples with whom they had their most intense contact did not understand these warrior bands and turned “Jaga” into a metaphor for barbarism and anarchy. Miller states rather that some of these warrior bands later became the core of the Mbangala kingdom with the reintroduction of kingship and a political title system. See Miller, Joseph C., “Requiem for the ‘Jaga‘,” Cahiers d'etudes africaines 13 (1973): 549-74CrossRefGoogle Scholar.