Book
The Baganda: an account of their native customs and beliefs
Macmillan and Co. • London • Published In 1911 • Pages:
By: Roscoe, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Roscoe, who spent the years from 1893 to 1911 as a missionary among the Baganda, has endeavored to present a picture of Ganda culture as it existed prior to the changes introduced by contact with Europeans, or in other words at about 1850. By the use of a minimum of comment and a great deal of objectivity, Roscoe presents a picture of these people that is vivid and powerful. The description is focused mainly on customs and associated beliefs and practices, and the reader is presented with a discussion of the general culture, followed by separate sections on birth, infancy, and puberty; marriage; sickness, death, and burial; descent; the sibs; their totems; the King; government; religion; warfare; industries (the exploitation of natural products and the processing of raw materials); animal husbandry; agricultural and food practices; hunting; markets and currency; wells; and a lengthy section on folklore. This material is supplemented by tables of anthropometric measurements, and by plans of the capital of the old regime, and of the Royal Enclosure. Although it lacks any theoretical organization, the book succeeds as a primary reference on the Ganda culture and people.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Literary texts
- Clans
- Chief executive
- Special burial practices and funerals
- Spirits and gods
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- Leslie L. Clark ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1900
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1854-1909
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- By John Roscoe
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 11032342
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ganda (African people)