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The missionary factor among the Lakeside Tonga of Nyasaland
Rhodes-Livingston journal: human problems in British Central Africa • (26) • Published In 1960 • Pages: 1-22
By: Van Velsen, J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Missionaries arrived in Tongaland in 1877 only a few years after the Tonga won independence from their Ngoni overlords. The missionaries tried to maintain their neutrality among the Tonga, but were drawn into playing a mediating role between rival chiefs, which was exacerbated by building the mission in one of the chief's village. The mission school was well attended and produced an educated class that served the colonial government and economy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community heads
- External relations
- Revolution
- Warfare
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lakeshore Tonga
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951-1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1861-1921
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nkhata Bay district, Northern Province, Malawi
- NotesAdditional notes
- by J. van Velsen
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 53033358
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Malawi