Book
The Mashona and the Matabele
Juta & Co. • Cape Town • Published In 1950 • Pages:
By: Bullock, Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an updated version of the author's 1927 work, [i]The Mashona[/i]. This edition contains more information on the Matabele (Ndebele) people than the original and that information has been indexed separately. The information is based on personal observations of the Shona and Ndebele over an indeterminate period the author served as a government official in the region. This source includes identification of the Shona and Ndebele groups and other neighboring tribes, and information on culture history, birth, childhood, adolescence, marriage, totemism, the cattle complex, family life, language, religion, the status and role of the dead, social and political organization and structure, law, and justice.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Pastoral activities
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- Extended families
- Clans
- Districts
- Purification and atonement
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Public welfare
- Literary texts
- Crime
- Judicial authority
- Burial practices and funerals
- Special burial practices and funerals
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Magicians and diviners
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shona
- 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.
- Government Official
- 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
- John Beierle; 1991
- 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
- 1901-1949
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Charles Bullock
- updated from the 1927 edition.
- Includes glossary and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 51007346
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shona (African people)