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The Zulu
Africana notes and news • 18 (5) • Published In 1969 • Pages: 201-220
By: Krauss, Ferdinand.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is the work of a naturalist who recorded his observations as he pursued his own work in Africa. It briefly surveys the development of Zulu political, military, and legal organization of the period, emphasizing the power of the king. Note is also taken of a wide variety of other aspects of Zulu life, including: sex roles, physical characteristics, dress, cooking methods, diet, crops cultivated and gathered, hunting techniques, beliefs about illness and burial practices.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Tillage
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Normal garb
- Division of labor by gender
- Dance
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- Military organization
- Military installations
- Warfare
- Theory of disease
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Natural Scientist
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Jan Simpson ; John Beierle ; 1979
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1839-1840
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-1840
- 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
- Ferdinand Krauss
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47020758
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zulu (African people)