The Chiga of UgandaThis book is an enlarged and amplified edition of the "The Chiga of Western Uganda," originally published in 1957. The volume provides a special insight into a culture at that time (1933) still intact under the British protectorate. Where significant changes were already taking place, the various changes are discussed in the contexts in which they seemed relevant-in social structure, kinship, marriage, economies, social control, religion and education, and material culture. What makes this edition unique is a new segment on material culture, previously unpublished. Edel's concrete yet wide-ranging descriptions provide an irreplaceable insight into a people and a culture at a unique point in world and colonial history. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
SOCIAL STRUCTURE | 8 |
KINSHIP | 29 |
MARRIAGE | 50 |
ECONOMICS | 79 |
SOCIAL CONTROL | 112 |
RELIGION | 129 |
EDUCATION | 173 |
FOOD AND ITS ACQUISITION | 195 |
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Abajura Abayundu Abraham Edel adzes African animals Ankole baby basket beans beer behaviour boys bride bride-price British brother Bufuka Bunyoro calabash cattle ceremony charms Chiga child clan clothing compound cooking courtyard cows crops cross-cousin cult daughter death diviner divorce dried drink emandwa Eseri example exogamous father feast fields fire formal ghost gifts girl goats grain grass gruel hand herds household husband important Kabaka Yekka Kampala killed kinship kinsmen knife land leprosy lineage live magic marriage married mats meat milk millet mother mother-in-law Mpororo neighbours Nyabingi offerings older pact-brother papyrus particular patrilineal peas person planted priests relations relationship rites ritual Ruanda sheep sister skin skirts sometimes sorcerer sort spear spirits stick tabus tion tribal Uganda usually village whole wife witchcraft wives woman women young
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Page xii - The majority of the investigations were carried on during the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century, but a few investigators have continued the study to the present day.