- 206 pages
- English
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The Chiga of Western Uganda
About this book
Originally published in 1957, this is an account of the Chiga, a Bantu tribe of Western Uganda. The Chiga are an independent farming people who have no tribal organization, and unlike the neighbouring East African peoples of a similar culture, no caste system. For this reason they are of particular comparative and historical interest. Full accounts are given of their social system, indigenous legal procedure, land and property rights, domestic and economic life and religious beliefs, with particular reference to the powerful Nyabingi cult, which, until its suppression by the British, was of vital social and political importance.
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INDEX
ADMINISTRATION, BRITISH, 109, 119, 120, 125, 126, 127, 156, 157, 172
Adolescence, 34, 35, 64, 178, 183, 185
Adoption, 10, 27
Adultery, 27, 67, 114
Affines, 14, 34, 45, 47-9, 135
respect towards, 33, 49, 60-1, 187
terms for, 31-2, 49
Agriculture, 79-80, 98-101, 105
Ancestors, 13, 22, 122, 126, 148. See also Spirits, ancestral
Ankole, 2, 3, 111, 146
Avoidance, 33, 46, 48, 49, 55, 60, 67. See also Tabus
BEER, 19, 49, 53, 55, 59, 61, 75, 79, 85, 87-8, 96, 125, 143, 147, 190
Birth, 69
Blood-brotherhood, 8, 25-7, 34, 47, 66-7, 104, 106, 123, 192
Bride-price, 2, 5, 10, 11, 36, 42, 49, 50-1, 55, 56-7, 76, 77, 78, 81, 105, 106, 126, 128
limitation of, 126, 128
receipt of, 42, 43
return of, 74-5, 76, 77, 111
women’s rights in, 96
Brothers, 11, 12, 13, 26, 38-9, 130
Burial, 14, 38, 57, 77, 133-5
mourning, 96, 1...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- FOREWORD
- I INTRODUCTION
- II SOCIAL STRUCTURE
- III KINSHIP
- IV MARRIAGE
- V ECONOMICS
- VI SOCIAL CONTROL
- VII RELIGION
- VIII EDUCATION
- Index