Son of Tiyo Soga, the first black South African to be ordained, John Henderson Soga (1860–1941) was a Xhosa minister and scholar. Like his father, he was one of the first of his people to be educated in Europe and to marry a European woman. His perspective on his people's history and culture is...

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1. Verfasser:	Soga, John Henderson (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1932
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge library collection. Anthropology
Schlagworte:	Xhosa (African people) Bantu-speaking peoples
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 UBG01 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	Son of Tiyo Soga, the first black South African to be ordained, John Henderson Soga (1860–1941) was a Xhosa minister and scholar. Like his father, he was one of the first of his people to be educated in Europe and to marry a European woman. His perspective on his people's history and culture is therefore distinctive. Conscious of the effects of modernity on Xhosa traditions, he published this work of social anthropology in 1932 to record their way of life as distinct from other tribal communities in South Africa. Soga traces the historical development of their clan system and laws, while offering uniquely informed insights into their beliefs and practices, such as the function of witch doctors and the customs of circumcision, lobola or 'bride price', and polygamy. The South-Eastern Bantu (1930), Soga's earlier survey of three branches of the Bantu family, is also reissued in this series
Beschreibung:	Includes index
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xx, 431 pages)
ISBN:	9781107339132
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781107339132