Book
The Ovimbundu of Angola
International African Institute • (2) • Published In 1952 • Pages: 50
By: McCulloch, Merran.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This survey presents a concise, critical and accurate account of our present knowledge of the Mbundu peoples. It is based upon previously published sources, principally 1: Childs and 3: Hambly, as well as personal assistance of Childs, C.M.N. White and J.A. Barnes. The section on social organization and political structure are particularly recommended, since they deal critically with the somewhat contradictory data of the principal sources and point up problems in analysis which remain unresolved. The bibliography, while not exhaustive, is reasonably complete.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ovimbundu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Richard Schaedel ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1945-51
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1560-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Angola
- NotesAdditional notes
- Merran McCulloch
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-50)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 53027860
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mbundu (African people)