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Preliminary notes on certain customs of the Ovambo
Journal of the South West Africa Scientific Society • 3 • Published In 1929 • Pages: 5-33
By: Hahn, C. H. L. (Carl Hugo Linsingen).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an early attempt to systematically describe Ovambo culture and society. Themes covered include religious practices, chieftaincy and chiefly funerals, inter-polity relations, warfare, family life, and major life cycle events.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fire
- Status, role, and prestige
- Inter-community relations
- Chief executive
- Warfare
- Special burial practices and funerals
- Religious practices
- Puberty and initiation
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ovambo
- 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.
- Colonial 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1915-1946
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1857-1927
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Oshana, Ohangwena, Omusati, and Oshikoto regions, Namibia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By C. H. L. Hahn
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29008102
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ovambo (African people)