The Lugbara of Uganda.
Series: Case studies in Cultural Anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London
Language: und
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
Table of contents: title: The people and their country. The country -- Contact with the outside world -- The economy of Lugbaraland -- Farm and settlement -- The form of Lugbara society. High people and low people -- Myth, time, and space -- -- Family, clan, and lineage. The family cluster and its elder -- The composition of the family cluster -- Notions of descent -- Clan dispersal -- Host and accessory groups -- Remnant clans -- The lineage system -- Rainmakers and holders of political authority -- The wider community. Interlineage relations and law and order -- Feud and warfare -- Chiefs, headmen, and the administration of justice -- Marriage and maternal kinship. Marriage and exogamy -- Kin by marriage -- Spirit and the ancestors. Offenses and sins -- Spirit and the nature of man -- Death and burial -- Death dances -- Contacting the soul -- The cult of the dead. The ritual position of the elder -- Ghost invocation and vengeance -- Oracles -- The rite of sacrifice -- Witches and sorcerers -- Cult, accusation, and ambition -- The prophetic cult of Yakan -- Conclusion : the changing society -- References -- Further reading -- Glossary.