Book
An African people in the twentieth century
Routledge & Sons • London • Published In 1934 • Pages:
By: Mair, Lucy Philip.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Ganda are a Christianized African people living on the northern and western shores of Lake Victoria. This book, a doctoral thesis at the University of London, is the result of an intensive field study. Its objective is to describe native life as European influences modified it, and to estimate the degree of success or failure with which the newly introduced elements were assimilated and the reasons for this success or failure. In this respect, British colonial policy and foreign missionary activities are subjected to careful scrutiny. In the description of native life, the author tried, as far as possible, to reconstruct elements which had been modified or overwhelmed by European contacts thereby showing more distinctly the course of acculturation. The following topics are discussed at length in this book: physical environment, life cycle, marriage and kinship institutions, economic and political organizations, religious and magical practices, and of particular interest, ceremonies attending the birth of twins and the performances of the prophets.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Agriculture
- Real property
- Community heads
- Clans
- Residence
- General character of religion
- Difficult and unusual births
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ganda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1931-1932
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1931-1932
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- By L. P. Mair
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of London
- The KIKA which had been designated as 'clan' by the author is indexed for Clan (614)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 34032375
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ganda (African people)