book chapter
Mani, a Zande secret society
Sudan notes and records • 14 • Published In 1931 • Pages: 105-148 [incomplete]
By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Edward Evan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A good description of the Mani Secret Society and its effect on the social structure of the Azande. Material omitted will be found in reference number 2:Evans-Pritchard.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Magicians and diviners
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Legal norms
- Sociocultural trends
- Magic
- 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.
- Social Anthropologist
- 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
- Katherine Schlesinger ; 1950
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1926-1929
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1926-1929
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nile-Uelle Divide, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk83015138
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)