Book
The social system of the Zulus
Shuter & Shooter • Pietermaritzburg • Published In 1965 • Pages:
By: Krige, Eileen Jensen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is '…a collection and scientific co-ordination of the information scattered about, or lying concealed in, numerous publications' (p. v) on the Zulu of KwaZulu-Natal. In addition to gathering information from published sources, the author corresponded with various individuals who were living and working in KwaZulu-Natal and made brief visits herself to KwaZulu-Natal. The source is a general ethnography covering the basic organizational and structural features of the Zulu. Given the research method, the time focus is, at best, ill-defined. The impression is that Krige was attempting to describe the 'traditional' Zulu, although there are occasional references to modern changes. The earliest source cited is 1836 and her correspondence and brief field trips were sometime around 1936, the publication date of the first edition.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Diet
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Inheritance
- Music
- Dance
- Literature
- Literary texts
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Kinship terminology
- Community structure
- Military organization
- Magical and mental therapy
- Burial practices and funerals
- Magicians and diviners
- Childbirth
- Postnatal care
- Puberty and initiation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zulu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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.
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1979
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- none
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1836-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Eileen Jensen Krige
- Ingroup Antagonisms (578) and Revolution (669) were used for Chaka's consolidation of the Zulu
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zulu (African people)