Book
Good company: a study of Nyakyusa age-villages
Oxford University Press for the International African Institute • London • Published In 1951 • Pages:
By: Wilson, Monica Hunter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source deals with the structure, economy and values of Nyakyusa society. For the purposes of the Ngonde file, the Nyakyusa are considered to be part of the Ngonde nation. The monograph includes discussions of the environment, village structure, mystical interdependence among members of the age-village, the maintenance of order, and characteristics of an age-village organization. Effects of European contact, particularly missionary activities which have succeeded in the conversion of a good number of Nyakysa to Christianity, are dealt with. A large part of the book consists of documents relating to the villages, in almost all of which witchcraft and sorcery figure prominently. Dr. Wilson is currently at the School of African Studies at the University of Capetown.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Chief executive
- Form and rules of government
- Puberty and initiation
- Household
- Age stratification
- Territorial hierarchy
- Gender status
- Kin relationships
- Local officials
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Status, role, and prestige
- Litigation
- Tillage
- Missions
- External relations
- Labor supply and employment
- Family relationships
- Sorcery
- Sexuality
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nyakyusa and Ngonde
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1957 ; Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934-1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nyakyusa, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- Monica Wilson
- Includes bibliograpahical references (p. 275-276)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 51014867
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ngonde (African people)/Nyakyusa (African people)
- Primitive societies