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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Body alterations
- Theory of disease
- Sanctions
- Sacred objects and places
- Medical therapy
- 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.
- Government Official
- 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
- WB ; 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)
- eastern Bahr-El-Ghazal, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. G. Anderson
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)