Book
Communal rituals of the Nyakyusa
Published for the International Institute by the Oxford University Press • London, New York, Toronto • Published In 1959 • Pages:
By: Wilson, Monica Hunter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This volume is a study of the relationship of religion to Nyakyusa social structure. The author examines the origin myths (the charter), political and age-grade ceremonies, ancestral sacrifices and the varying importance of ancestral shrines, political power and status based on religion, sorcery, 'medicines,' oracles and cosmology. In the final section she discusses the influence of the Christian missionaries and the native African churches on Nyakyusa society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Chief executive
- Ethnic stratification
- Traditional history
- Tillage
- Age stratification
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Organized ceremonial
- Cult of the dead
- Real property
- Majority
- Priesthood
- Districts
- Mythology
- Cosmology
- Gender status
- Revelation and divination
- Theory of disease
- Normal garb
- Religious denominations
- Missions
- Sex and marital offenses
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Sociocultural trends
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Robert J. Theodoratus ; 1962 ; Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934-1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1934-1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nyakyusa, Tanzania and Malawi
- NotesAdditional notes
- Monica Wilson
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59000799
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nyakyusa (African people)