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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Pels, Peter
Title:
The pidginization of Luguru politics: administrative ethnography and the paradoxes of indirect rule
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
American ethnologist -- Vol. 23, no. 4
Published By: Original publisher
American ethnologist -- Vol. 23, no. 4
[Washington]: American Ethnological Society. 1996. 738-761 p. ill., map
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Peter Pels
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2020. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Luguru (FN32)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
External relations (648);
Administrative agencies (647);
Form and rules of government (642);
Status, role, and prestige (554);
Community councils (623);
Community heads (622);
Real property (423);
Clans (614);
Lineages (613);
Political movements (668);
Political intrigue (662);
Acculturation and culture contact (177);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study discusses what became of the traditional Luguru system of political organization and governance as a consequence of the policy of Indirect Rule pursued early on by British colonial authorities. The analysis rebuts studies that attributed a hegemonic role to the colonial administration. In the case of the Luguru, local agents of the colonial bureaucracy exercised comparable powers by redefining the culturally-expected roles of traditional authorities—most notably lineage heads, clan elders and rainmaker magicians—as government functionaries. The author likens the net effects of such agency to the emergence of a pidginized language.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
12
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
fn32-012
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 759-761)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
No date given
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Anthropologist-4/5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Teferi Abate Adem; 2020
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1925-1935
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Uluguru Mountains, Morogoro Region, Tanzania
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Luguru (African people)
