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Cosmology, practice, and social organization among the Kadara and Kagoro
Ethnology • 21 (1) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 1-20
By: Smith, M. G. (Michael Garfield).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a comparison of Kagoro and Kadara (FF34) religion and social organization. Both groups are organized into exogamous, localized patrilineages with only a village-level political organization, and practice polygamy, serial polyandry, and wife-abduction. Major differences in social organization are the presence of moieties among the Kagoro and age-sets among the Kadara. With respect to religion, both groups share similar practices and beliefs including: the calendrical [n]ci[/n] rites that organized the seasonal round of agriculture and other subsistence activities; the Obwai and head-hunting cults; the dual religious and political role of priests; a creator god identified with the sun; and witchcraft. A stark difference is that the Kagoro do not believe in an after-life or ancestral spirits.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Marriage
- Localized kin groups
- Sorcery
- Cult of the dead
- Religious beliefs
- Ecclesiastical organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Katab
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2015
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2013
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- north-central Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. G. Smith
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 20)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Katab (African people)