Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
The Nyakyusa and Ngonde collection covers cultural, economic and historical information, circa 1875 to 1983. Most of the documents in the collection were written by the husband-wife team of Godfrey and Monica Wilson based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1934-1938. The basic introduction to Nyakyusa society and culture is Godfrey Wilson's "An Introduction to Nyakyusa society". The information in this document is further enriched by the works of Monica Wilson which, together, provide a comprehensive first-hand account of Nyakyusa culture and society as observed in mid-1930s. Main themes covered in these works include social and economic structure of a Nyakyusa age-village, communal rituals related to burials, marriage, birth, misfortunes, etc, relationship of religion to Nyakyusa social structure, changes in generational and gender relations, and traditional land tenure systems. The collection also includes two other documents that focus on the Ngonde. These documents cover the traditional political structure of Ngonde society and aspects of socioeconomic change since 18th century. Finally, the collection also includes one essay which seeks to re-evaluate some of the key arguments in the earlier work by the Wilsons. The focus is on dynamics of kinship and chieftainship in age-villages, a uniquely Nyakyusa residence pattern in which a cohort of boys establish their own village settlement in previously uninhabited land
Note:
Culture summary: Nyakyusa and Ngonde - Michael G. Kenny - 2011 -- - Good company: a study of Nyakyusa age-villages - Monica Wilson - 1951 -- - Rituals of kinship among the Nyakyusa - Monica Hunter Wilson - 1957 -- - The land rights of individuals among the Nyakyusa - by Godfrey Wilson - 1938 -- - The constitution of Ngonde - by Godfrey Wilson - 1939 -- - An introduction to Nyakyusa society - Godfrey Wilson - 1936 -- - Communal rituals of the Nyakyusa - Monica Wilson - 1959 -- - Towards a better understanding of socio-economic change in 18th- and 19th-century Ungonde - Owen J. M. Kalinga - 1984 -- - For men and elders: change in the relations of generations and of men and women among the Nyakyusa-Ngonde people, 1875-1971 - by Monica Wilson - 1977 -- - The social structure of the Nyakyusa: a re-evaluation - Michael G. McKenny
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Nyakyusa
;
Ngonde
