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Kaguru Omens

An East African People's Concepts of the Unusual, Unnatural and Supernormal

Bibliographic Data

ID2581848
AuthorsT O Beidelman (corresponding author)
Year1963
Volume36
Issue2
Pages43
Publication date1963-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3316958
OpenAlexW2331171135
LanguageEN
Citations received7

for these various types of phenomena might perhaps all be translated as omens, but such a categorisation would obscure certain important differences between them.2 To understand these differences is to gain insight into certain values of Kaguru society and to make sense of Kaguru conduct which otherwise might well appear inexplicable and irrational. The Kaguru are matrilineal Bantu cultivators inhabiting east

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year0,11
Citation span1964 - 2019 (56)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7

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