Ila / Daryll Forde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forde, Daryll, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Zambia.

Ethnology.

Zambia--Civilization.

Zambia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn : Human Relations Area Files, 2014.

Summary:

This collection of 13 documents are about the Ila, a Bantu-speaking people living along the Kafue River in southwestern Zambia. The most comprehensive sources in Ila collection are two volumes by Smith (a missionary and professional anthropologist) and Dale (a colonial magistrate and anthropologist) who lived among the Ila during the opening decades of the twentieth century. This work is the first systematic attempt to understand pre-colonial Ila culture and society, covering a wide variety of themes including history, social organization, subsistence, religion, law, the arts, and life cycles (Smith and Dale 1920). Some of the information in these volumes was updated in an addendum that drew on Smith's return visit in 1947 (Smith 1949). Other works in the collection focus on specific themes including: herding practices (Fielder 1979); marriage and family life (Brelsford 1933); the role of cattle in exchange and social relations (Fielder 1973); the dynamics of wealth and power (Tuden 1968); slavery (Tuden 1958); song (Fowler 2000); concepts of crime and punishment (Cutshall 1982); and the consequences of colonial public health programs (Callahan 1997).

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