Book
The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu country
E. Stanford • London • Published In 1857 • Pages:
By: Shooter, Joseph.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a general ethnography of the Zulu in the middle of the nineteenth century. Standard subjects are treated, including physical appearance, clothing, economy, marriage practices, political institutions, treatment of crimes, religion and divination, and a relatively brief history of the wars of Shaka. The author was a missionary who spent four years in Natal. His research methodology involved interviewing of informants and some historical research.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Descriptive somatology
- Hunting and trapping
- Domesticated animals
- Tillage
- Normal garb
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Household
- Family relationships
- Provinces
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- Revolution
- Offenses against life
- Offenses against the person
- Property offenses
- Warfare
- Sorcery
- Revelation and divination
- Magicians and diviners
- Missions
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 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.1800-1857
- 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
- By the Rev. Joseph Shooter
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05016993
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zulu (African people)