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² For some of the important works on power and authority that have stopped in either the late precolonial era or early colonial era, see Schoenbrun, The Names of the Python; Schoenbrun, A Green Place, a Good Place; Kodesh, Beyond the Royal Gaze; Reid, Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda; Hanson, Landed Obligation, and Newbury, Kings and Clans.