book chapter
The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: the third part of hte report of the Mackie ethnological expedition to Central Africa
The University Press • Cambridge [eng.] • Published In 1924 • Pages:
By: Roscoe, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an early account of Bagisu ethnography, written by a missionary-anthropologist, covering roughly the period of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. In some particulars this study differs somewhat from the culture summary in this file by J. S. LaFontaine whose data on the Bagisu covers a later period up to about 1954. Major topics discussed in this document are: socio-political organization, personal characteristics of the people (dress, ornaments, etc.), religion, agriculture, domestic animals, house construction, crafts, economics, birth, initiation ceremonies, marriage, sickness, death, inheritance, kinship terminology, and a short section on the Bakyiga clan.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Body alterations
- Inheritance
- Rest days and holidays
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Clans
- Theory of disease
- Sorcery
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Difficult and unusual births
- Puberty and initiation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bagisu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2003
- 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)
- Bugisu District, Mount Elgon region, Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Roscoe
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 24007128
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gisu (African people)