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African kinship systems
Author_May M. Edel
Bantu ethnography
Bride Price Cattle
Bride Price Payment
caste system
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Chiga
Common Language
comparative African societies
Dead Man
Elephant Grass
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Father's Sister
Father's Sister's Daughter
Father’s Sister
Father’s Sister’s Daughter
Formal Tribal Unity
Full Sibling
Ganda Chiefs
Ghost Huts
Honey Beer
indigenous legal systems
Jungle Creepers
Lake Shore
land tenure Africa
Married Woman
Matrilateral Cross-cousin Marriage
May M. Edel
Monkeys Chatter
Mother's Brother's Daughter
Mother's Daughter
Mother's Sister's Child
Mother’s Brother’s Daughter
Mother’s Daughter
Mother’s Sister’s Child
Nyabingi
Nyabingi Cult
Nyabingi Priests
Nyabingi religion
Papyrus Swamps
religious cult
social organisation Uganda
Spirit Huts
Western Uganda
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138587144
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
