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Die Mwera in Südost-Tansania : ihre Lebensweise und Kultur um 1920 nach Joachim Ammann OSB und Meinulf Küsters OSB mit Fotografien von Nikolaus von Holzen OSB /

Title
Die Mwera in Südost-Tansania : ihre Lebensweise und Kultur um 1920 nach Joachim Ammann OSB und Meinulf Küsters OSB mit Fotografien von Nikolaus von Holzen OSB / Maria Kecskési (Hrsg.).
Publication
München : Herbert Utz Verlag, c2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Ammann, Joachim, 1898-1981.
  • Holzen, Nikolaus von.
  • Kecskési, Maria.
  • Küsters, Meinulf, 1890-1947.
Description
331 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book is an edition of primary source texts. It presents ethnographic material recorded by two Missionary Benedictines who were sent out from St. Ollilien to south-east Tanganyika (today Tanzania) in the 1920s: Joachim Ammann OSB (1898-1981) and Meinulf Küsters OSB (1890-1947). The work of these two missionaries has been preserved in the form of typewritten manuscripts kept in the archives of the Benedictine abbey in Ndanda (south-east Tanzania). The manuscripts are related to each other in a way that means it is not always easy to tell who is the originator of the contents. ... Part I, the first of Amman's two typescripts, offers an overview of the traditional culture of the Mwera.... Part II, Amman's second typescript, gives a detailed description of initiation rites for boys and girls. ... Part III of this edition of the texts contains some of the field notes written by Meinulf Küsters OSB when he worked among the Mwera in 1927/1928. His aim was to give at least a sketchy description of all important aspects of Mwera culture"--P. 259-260.
Series Statement
Ethnologie
Uniform Title
Ethnologie (Herbert Utz Verlag Wissenschaft).
Subject
  • Ethnology > Tanzania
  • Mwera (African people) > Tanzania > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-271) and index.
Language (note)
  • German with summaries in English and Swahili.
Contents
Sitten und Gebräuche der Wamwera -- Die Pubertätsweihe unyago -- Handschriftliche ethnografische Aufzeichnungen (Zusammenfassung) -- Wörterliste: Kimwere--Kiswahili--Deutsch.
ISBN
  • 9783831641734 (pbk.)
  • 3831641730 (pbk.)
LCCN
2013392172
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library