book chapter
The tribal teachings of the Chagga
C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung • 1 • Published In 1932 • Pages: HRAF ms: xv, 404 [Original: xvi, 671 ]
By: Gutmann, Bruno, Goodenough, Ward Hunt, Crawford, Dorothy.
Abstract
This source, written by a missionary living in the Chagga country, consists primarily of lectures delivered to the young people by their elders. These lectures stress the expected behavior for various situations. Most of them deal with behavior toward primary and secondary relatives, and a number with behavior toward chieftains, neighbors, sib-mates, blood-brothers, fellow soldiers, dependents, and so forth. The last quarter of the source gives a detailed description of a group of age-mates undergoing a circumcision ceremony. The researcher should note that these texts refer to idealized patterns of social behavior rather than an objective description. The other two volumes of this work have not been processed for this file.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Missionary
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- James R. Leary ; 1958 : Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field Date
- 1906-1926
- Coverage Date
- 1900-1932
- Coverage Place
- Chagga, Tanzania
- Notes
- Bruno Gutmann
- Translation of: [Die Stammeslehren der Dschagga]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Ward Goodenough and Dorothy Crawford in 1958
- Omitted from the Files: various sections not dealing with the Chagga
- LCCN
- 33036354
- LCSH
- Chaga (African people)
- Chaga language--Texts