The Baganda
an account of their native customs and beliefs.
2d ed.
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Word Count
136,750 words, Guess
Page Count
547 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5976508M
- OCLC Control Number943033
- OCLC Control Numberbaganda0000unse
- Library of Congress Control Number66002834
Classifications
- DDC916.6761
- LCCDT434.U2 R7 1966
Description
Missionary and amateur anthropologist John Roscoe (1861–1932) published this account of the Baganda tribe of Buganda in 1911, to preserve a record of a sophisticated people before their cultural traditions were undermined as their territory became part of the British Protectorate of Uganda. He had spent twenty-five years in Africa, during which he interviewed the people in their own languages about their customs and religious beliefs. The Baganda is a straightforward survey of a traditionally organised way of life. Birth, upbringing, marriage, death and burial, clans, kings, government, warfare, and other topics are treated in careful detail. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the longest chapter is on religion, but Roscoe makes non-judgmental observations on customs which did not fit with western morality. More recent anthropological research has amplified Roscoe's findings, but has found little to correct, and this remains a standard work on a culture about to undergo a massive transformation.
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