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Cattle: the life blood of Shona society
Shona customs; essays by African writers • Gwelo, Rhodesia • Published In 1970 • Pages: 20-23
By: Bere-Chikara, Fidelis, Kileff, Clive, Kileff, Peggy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is one of twenty essays on Shona culture and society, written by Zimbabwean students at various secondary schools and colleges. Selected out of a total of two hundred and eight submitted in an essay competition, the document was originally published in an edited volume. The focus of this document is on the place of cattle in Shona culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Cultural identity and pride
- Cult of the dead
- Mode of marriage
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Accumulation of wealth
- Status, role, and prestige
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- 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
- 1968-1969
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- Fidelis Bere-Chikara
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73165356
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shona (African people)