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Bureaucracy and chiefship in Buganda: the development of appointive office in the history of Buganda
East African Institute of Social Research • (14) • Published In 1961 • Pages: 20
By: Southwold, Martin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this brief paper, Southwold analyzes the system of delegating power and authority in the history of Buganda. He examines the strategies Ganda kings employed to maximize their authority and control over administrators and other subordinates.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Clans
- Territorial hierarchy
- Provinces
- Chief executive
- 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.
- Social Anthropologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Helen Gunsher Bornstein ; Sigrid Khera ; 1971-1972
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200-1892
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Martin Southwold
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 19)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64029933
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ganda (African people)