Book
Controlling anger: the sociology of Gisu violence
Manchester University Press, for the International African Institute, London ; Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press • Manchester [england] • Published In 1989 • Pages: xi, 296
By: Heald, Suzette.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is based on the author's fieldwork among the Bagisu people of Central Bugisu, Uganda, from August 1965 to June l969. The main emphasis in this work is to show the various ways in which violence presents itself in Bagisu life, and the manner in which it is brought under control in the society. Most of the major topics in this document, are related to violence and its repression. These topics include: an account of the reputation of the Bagisu for violence leading back to early colonial days; statistics on homicide; the association of violence with manhood and the expression of anger; the ordeal of circumcision; behavior and treatment of witches and thieves; inheritance; kinship; hostility management in the community; ancestor beliefs; joking and avoidance behavior; and the establishment of new institutions to control violence, such as the vigilante groups and the drinking companies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Social relationships and groups
- Sodalities
- Mode of marriage
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Kin relationships
- Parents-in-law and children-in-law
- Lineages
- Community heads
- Police
- Offenses against life
- Offenses against the person
- Property offenses
- Sorcery
- Ethnopsychology
- Puberty and initiation
- Adulthood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bagisu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- August 1965-June 1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bugisu District, Mount Ellgon region, Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- Suzette Heald
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-289) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89014546
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Gisu (African people)