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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Anderson, R. G.
Title:
Some tribal customs in their relation to medicine and morals
of the Nyam-nyam and Gour people inhabiting the eastern Bahr-El-Ghazal
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Fourth report of Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories
at the Gordon Memorial College Khatroum -- Vol. B
Published By: Original publisher
Fourth report of Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories
at the Gordon Memorial College Khatroum -- Vol. B
London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox. 1911. 239-277 p.,
plates [incomplete] ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
R. G. Anderson
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1999. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Azande (FO07)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Body alterations (304);
Theory of disease (753);
Sanctions (681);
Sacred objects and places (778);
Medical therapy (757);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Captain R. G. Anderson of the Royal Army Medical Corps
reports on the medical and moral customs of the Nyam-nyam Azande and Gour. His observations
of the semi-magical preventitive and therapeutic techniques, drugs, and charms are made
apropos of introducing and applying modern scientific medicine. Anderson covers most
extensively mutilation (for punishment, decoration, and status distinction), charms, and
the prevalent diseases with their conventional cures. Anderson's observations on 'morality'
are scanty and ethnocentric and have not been excerpted.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
10
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
fo07-010
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Component part(s), monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
This document consists of excerpts
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Government Official-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
WB ; 1950
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
eastern Bahr-El-Ghazal, Sudan
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Zande (African people)
