Book
The Bakitara or Banyoro: the first part of the report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa
The University Press • Cambridge [eng.] • Published In 1923 • Pages:
By: Roscoe, John, Mackie Ethnological Expedition To Central Africa, 1919-1920.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an early ethnography of the Nyoro, which mostly focuses on the royal household and palace rituals. Much of the information is based on observation of rituals and material cultural practices. Some folk stories, myths, and history are also included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Special deposits
- Smiths and their crafts
- Public structures
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Purification and atonement
- Difficult and unusual births
- 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.
- 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
- 1861-1919
- 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
- by John Roscoe
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 24004798
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nyoro (African people)