Sonjo of Tanganyika
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African ethnography
Age Grade System
Author_Robert F. Gray
Bantu societies
Bulrush Millet
Category=JHM
Ceremonial Club
Common Language
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Goat Ownership
Hura Land
Hydraulic Societies
irrigation based systems
Irrigation Economies
Irrigation Rights
kinship and marriage patterns
Lake Natron
Magare Land
Main Furrow
Masai District
Masai Raiders
Northern Tanganyika
pastoralists
political anthropology
political organization
Private Delicts
ritual and social structure
Robert F. Gray
Serengeti Plain
Small Lineage Groups
Sonjo
Sonjo Language
Tanganyika
Tanzania
traditional irrigation practices research
Unilineal Descent Groups
Warrior Age Grades
Warrior Age Set
Warrior Class
water management systems
Water Rights
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138589650
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society was studied in detail and its implications explored. The Sonjo, a Bantu-speaking people isolated among cattle pastoralists of what was Northern Tanganyika, are remarkable for their complex irrigation system and political organization. The inter-connections between the irrigation system, the religious cult of a culture hero, and the special features of their social organization are at the core of this analysis.
