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Les Wa lu guru
Anthropos • 45 (1/3) • Published In 1950 • Pages: 241-286
By: Scheerder, Tastevin.
Abstract
This is a concise ethnography by a Dutch missionary who lived among the Luguru over a nine-year period between the two World Wars. It briefly covers a wide range of topics, including clan organization, traditional history, birth, naming, puberty rites, daily routine, inheritance, religion, and divination practices.
- Subjects
- Traditional history
- Eating
- Dwellings
- Real property
- Personal names
- Mode of marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Clans
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Cult of the dead
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Magicians and diviners
- Childbirth
- Difficult and unusual births
- Puberty and initiation
- culture
- Luguru
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Missionary
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2020
- Field Date
- not specified
- Coverage Date
- 1930-1950
- Coverage Place
- Uluguru Mountains, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
- Notes
- Par les RR. PP. Scheerder et Tastevin C.S. Sp.
- LCCN
- 07021775
- LCSH
- Luguru (African people)