Book
The Nyoro state
Clarendon Press • Oxford • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Beattie, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study, Beattie examines the political institutions of the Bunyoro kingdom prior to 1967. Bunyoro had been the dominant kingdom in the interlacustrine region, but was in decline by the time the first Europeans, Speke and Grant, arrived in 1862. Oral history and court ritual speak to a structural duality--typical of the interlacustrine states--between centralized rule imposed by outsiders--in the caseof Banyoro by pastoralists from the north (BAHIMA) and a lineage-based organization of indigenous agriculturalists (BAIRU). However, Beattie argues that this structure disappeared with the destruction of the herds and that political authority rested in royal grants of land and political office made to Bahima and Bairu alike. The Banyoro never achieved the degree of centralization of the neighboring Buganda kingdom and Beattie examines the multiple reasons for this situation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Territorial organization
- Status, role, and prestige
- Government institutions
- Mythology
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Banyoro
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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 ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1862-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Western Province, Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Beattie
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-275)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78026244
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nyoro (African people)