Book
The hidden hippopotamus: reappraisal in African history
Cambridge University Press • Cambridge [eng.] • Published In 1980 • Pages: xvi, 319
By: Prins, Gwyn.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents an account of Lozi society during the years 1876-1896. The work is divided into four parts. Part 1 identifies the relevant contextual dimensions of time and space and then identifies the levels of social organization. Part 2 concentrates on the material components of Lozi society (e.g., labor, economics, etc.), examining various aspects of production, distribution and exchange, particularly in terms of the social relationships involved at each level. In part 3 Prins discusses the dualistic aspects of cosmology, and how this perception forms a common thread linking royal and public rituals. Part 4 is a narrative account of Lozi history and politics, dealing in large part with European contacts and especially with the missionary work of François and Christina Coillard.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lozi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- John Beierle 1993
- 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
- 1876-1896
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zambia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gwyn Prins
- Based on the author's thesis, London, 1969.
- Includes index.|Bibliography: p. 306-309
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79041658
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lozi (African people)