Book
The ecology of the Gwembe Tonga
Manchester University Press • Manchester • Published In 1962 • Pages: xxii, 274 , 11 photos on 6 plates
By: Scudder, Thayer, University of Zambia. Institute for Social Research.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the companion volume to Colson (1967), who also studied the social organization and human ecology of the Gwembe Tonga as a baseline study prior to the Tonga resettlement in connection with the Kariba Dam. Scudder focuses on ecology, investigating the causes of famine during the preceding century. The author discusses the different types of agriculture practiced, population and settlement patterns, subsidiary economic activities such as animal husbandry, fishing, hunting, and gathering, and lastly, he discusses the causes of famine. He concludes that food shortages were caused by irregular rainfall, Zambezi River flooding, animal and plant pests, degradation and subdivision of alluvial holdings, household variation in crop production, and (formerly) intertribal and intra-neighborhood raiding.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Food quest
- Animal husbandry
- Agriculture
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tonga
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1956-1957 (11 mos.)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1957
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Southern province, Zambia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thayer Scudder
- Companion vol. to "The social organization of the Gwembe Tongo" by E. Colson
- Published on behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute by Manchester University Press
- Includes bibliographical references (p.262-265)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 67118694
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonga (Zambezi people)
- Traditional farming