The Baganda: An Account of their Native Customs and Beliefs - Couverture souple

Roscoe, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108031390 ISBN 13 : 9781108031394

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

An important work of 1911 on an African tribe about to be transformed by westernisation in the early twentieth century.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108031390
• ISBN 13: 9781108031394
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 594
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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