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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 October 2011
      19 May 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139051071
      9781108031394
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051071
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 594 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology
      Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology
    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology
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    Missionary and amateur anthropologist John Roscoe (1861–1932) published this account of the Baganda tribe of Buganda in 1911, to preserve a record of a sophisticated people before their cultural traditions were undermined as their territory became part of the British Protectorate of Uganda. He had spent twenty-five years in Africa, during which he interviewed the people in their own languages about their customs and religious beliefs. The Baganda is a straightforward survey of a traditionally organised way of life. Birth, upbringing, marriage, death and burial, clans, kings, government, warfare, and other topics are treated in careful detail. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the longest chapter is on religion, but Roscoe makes non-judgmental observations on customs which did not fit with western morality. More recent anthropological research has amplified Roscoe's findings, but has found little to correct, and this remains a standard work on a culture about to undergo a massive transformation.

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