Book
Aspects of Bunyoro customs and tradition
East African Literature Bureau • Nairobi • Published In 1970 • Pages:
By: Nyakatura, J. W. (John W.), Rigby, Zebiya Kwamya.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is a translation of a school textbook on Bunyoro customs by an Nyoro historian. It is a personal account of marriage ceremonies, family relationships, traditional education, friendship, songs, spirit possession, divination, court structure, and history.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Division of labor by gender
- Music
- Friendships
- Nuptials
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Organized ceremonial
- Reproduction
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not Specified
- 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
- Translated, annotated, and with a pref. by Zebiya Kwamya Rigby
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72181963
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nyoro (African people)