The Baganda
An Account of their Native Customs and Beliefs
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- Author: John Roscoe
- Date Published: May 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108031394
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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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- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108031394
- length: 594 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.75kg
- contains: 82 b/w illus. 3 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. General survey of the country, life and customs
2. Birth, infancy and puberty
3. Marriage
4. Sickness, death, and burial
5. Relationships
6. The clans and their tomes
7. The king
8. Government
9. Religion
10. Warfare
11. Industries
12. The keeping of cows and other domestic animals
13. Agriculture and food
14. Hunting
15. Markets and currency
16. Wells
17. Folklore
Anthropometric tables
Explanatory notes to plans
Index.-
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