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Notes on Chagga customs
Tanganyika notes and records • (60) • Published In 1963 • Pages: 67-90
By: Marealle, Petro Itoshi, d.1982, Swai, R. D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
While not a summary or survey of the entire culture, this article, written by a native chief, is a lucid account of some of the former aboriginal social-cultural institutions of the Chagga of Tanganyika. The author's observations are valuable, particularly his critical insights into the chiefly succession process, chiefly installation rituals, and the kinship-wealth-status functions in the nature of power distribution within the chieftain establishment. Among the most informative sections of the article are the data concerning the Chagga concepts of measurement, numeration, computation, and ordering of time, in relation to their agricultural and seasonal cycles. Also found are some remarks on native pottery manufacture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Chief executive
- Citizenship
- Traditional history
- Territorial hierarchy
- Clans
- Military organization
- Metallurgy
- Age stratification
- Strategy
- External relations
- Tillage
- Accumulation of wealth
- Taxation and public income
- Ordering of time
- Weights and measures
- Ethnometeorology
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- Gilbert Winer ; 1967 : Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- 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
- 1900-1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chagga, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- Petro I Marealle ;Translated by R. D. Swai
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sv 89097589
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chaga (African people)