essay
Social stratification in traditional Buganda
King's men : leadership and status in Buganda on the eve of independence • London • Published In 1964 • Pages: 64-116
By: Fallers, Lloyd A., Kamoga, F. K., Musoke, S. B. K..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study examines the social structure and values of traditional Baganda society. The major social division in Baganda society occurred between the'undistinguished' primary producers, and those connected by kinship, service, or appointment to the king. Another division was found between the centralized government centered on the king and the non-localized clans. Clan chiefs remained strong in the old core of the kingdom, whereas royal appointees held sway in newly conquered territories. Clan chiefs, appointed administrative and military chiefs, and officials all had their own estates. The authority and legitimacy of both the king and clan chiefs rested on oral histories and the dynastic genealogy, which had their material and spatial correlates in a network of royal and clan tombs and shrines. Each shrine had a group of religious specialists who carried out rituals and communicated with the shrine's particular ancestral spirit or god.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Manipulative mobility
- Clans
- Territorial hierarchy
- Form and rules of government
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- unknown
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-1899
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- L. A. Fallers, assisted by F. K. Kamoga and S. B. K. Musoke
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64002741
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ganda (African people)