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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Puberty and initiation
- Techniques of socialization
- Literature
- Oratory
- Ethnopsychology
- Cousins
- Body alterations
- Instigation of war
- Hunting and trapping
- Ethnogeography
- Verbal arts
- Sex training
- Gender status
- Polygamy
- Ceremonial during infancy and childhood
- Grandparents and grandchildren
- Friendships
- Community heads
- Ethics
- Visiting and hospitality
- Basis of marriage
- Family relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chagga
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1958 : Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1906-1926
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1932
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chagga, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 33036354
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chaga (African people)
- Chaga language--Texts