eHRAF World Cultures

Explore search results through word clouds.

Compare cultures overlayed on a map.

Drill down through the search results by region and culture.

Sort Results By

Display Use Fors

The Chagga are a Bantu-speaking people living on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In the nineteenth century, the Chagga were cultivators and cattle keepers. They underwent significant changes in the colonial and postcolonial periods with expanding coffee production, land shortage and the inflow of wages and salaries from migrants and employees. In traditional Chagga society, localized patrilineages formed the subunits within a district, and several districts formed autonomous chiefdoms. The chiefs often warred with each other for revenge, plunder and conquest. After Tanzania won its independence in 1961, the system of chiefdoms was abolished.

Kilimanjaro and its people

Chagga law

The tribal teachings of the Chagga

Notes on Chagga customs

Culture summary

Social facts and fabrications

Divination and experience

Chaga childhood

Africa

Asia

Europe

Middle America and the Caribbean

Middle East

New World

North America

Oceania

South America

Log In

Author	Title	Publication Date
Dundas, Charles	Kilimanjaro and its people	1924
Gutmann, Bruno	Chagga law	1926
Gutmann, Bruno	The tribal teachings of the Chagga	1932
Marealle, Petro Itoshi, d.1982	Notes on Chagga customs	1963
Moore, Sally Falk	Culture summary	2011
Moore, Sally Falk	Social facts and fabrications	1986
Myhre, Knut Christian	Divination and experience	2006
Raum, Otto Friedrich	Chaga childhood	1940

Chagga

Your privacy