Publication Information The main body of the Publication Information page contains all the metadata that HRAF holds for that document.
Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Scotch, Norman A., 1928-
Title:
Magic, sorcery, and football among the urban Zulu: a case of
reinterpretation under acculturation
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Black Africa; its peoples and their cultures today, edited
by John Middleton
Published By: Original publisher
Black Africa; its peoples and their cultures today, edited
by John Middleton
New York: Macmillan Company. 1970. 248-252 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Norman A. Scotch
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2005. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Zulu (FX20)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Acculturation and culture contact (177);
Sociocultural trends (178);
Athletic sports (526);
Magic (789);
Sorcery (754);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, the work of a professional anthropologist,
discusses the ways beliefs in magic and sorcery have been re-worked in urban Durban in the
context of competitive team sports. The author indicates that magic in this case continues
to operate as a mediating factor in situations of stress, and alleviates interpersonal and
intergroup antagonisms by displacing the apparent causes of success and failure.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
41
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.
fx20-041
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
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
Ethnologist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Jan Simpson ; John Beierle ; 1979
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Durban region, KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Zulu (African people)
