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Les Wa lu guru
Anthropos • 45 (1/3) • Published In 1950 • Pages: 241-286
By: Scheerder, Tastevin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Luguru
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uluguru Mountains, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- Par les RR. PP. Scheerder et Tastevin C.S. Sp.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 07021775
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Luguru (African people)