book chapter
Some tribal customs in their relation to medicine and morals of the Nyam-nyam and Gour people inhabiting the eastern Bahr-El-Ghazal
Fourth report of Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College Khatroum • London • Published In 1911 • Pages: 239-277 , plates [incomplete]
By: Anderson, R. G..
Abstract
Captain R. G. Anderson of the Royal Army Medical Corps reports on the medical and moral customs of the Nyam-nyam Azande and Gour. His observations of the semi-magical preventitive and therapeutic techniques, drugs, and charms are made apropos of introducing and applying modern scientific medicine. Anderson covers most extensively mutilation (for punishment, decoration, and status distinction), charms, and the prevalent diseases with their conventional cures. Anderson's observations on 'morality' are scanty and ethnocentric and have not been excerpted.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1999
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Central Africa
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Government Official
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- WB ; 1950
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- eastern Bahr-El-Ghazal, Sudan
- Notes
- R. G. Anderson
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSH
- Zande (African people)