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Towards a better understanding of socio-economic change in 18th- and 19th-century Ungonde
Cahiers d’e´tudes Africaines • 24 (1) • Published In 1984 • Pages: 87-100
By: Kalinga, Owen J. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article focuses on the pre-colonial history of the Ngonde people of Malawi. It seeks to reconstruct the nature of Ngonde society by exploring the socio-economic consequences of migration and settlement of peoples to the area. In doing so, the author rejects earlier arguments which attribute the rise of Ngonde Kingdom to the expansion of commerce.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- Traditional history
- History
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Social relationships and groups
- External migration
- Environmental quality
- Real property
- Tillage
- Pastoral activities
- Settlement patterns
- Community heads
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- External relations
- External trade
- Taxation and public income
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- 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
- 1600-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southern Songwe Region, Malawi
- NotesAdditional notes
- Owen J. M. Kalinga
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-100)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 86012778
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ngonde (African people)/Nyakyusa (African people)