book chapter
The Azande or Niam-Niam: Zande organizations, religious and magical beliefs, family customs
Bibliotheque-Congo • 18 • Published In 1926 • Pages: 224 , plates [incomplete]
By: Lagae, C. R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
An excellent work, especially on general social organization, ceremonies surrounding the individual's life crises, and secret societies. Material on religion is subject to highly theoretical interpretation. The section on religion and magic has been utilized by Evans-Pritchard and compared with his own data (source number 2), where it is best consulted.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Localized kin groups
- Revelation and divination
- Sorcery
- Magicians and diviners
- Chief executive
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Azande
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- 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
- JMA ; 1950
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Central African Republic; Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. R. Lagae
- Translation of: Les Azande ou Niam-Niam : L'organisation Zande, croyances religieuses et magiques, coutumes familiales
- The original French text is not included
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translated for the HRAF files by JMA and MC
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)