Political evolution in the Songea Ngoni chiefdoms, 1850-1905
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2812665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P H Gulliver (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 82-97 |
| Publication date | 1974-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x00094878 |
| OpenAlex | W2126146852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
Before he became a professional linguist, Wilfred Whiteley was employed in anthropological research by the then Government of Tanganyika in the Southern Province of that Territory (1948-51). In 1949 he was requested to investigate the customary law on chiefly succession in the Njelu Ngoni chiefdom of Songea District, where dispute had arisen over the appointment of a new chief. In 1952-3 I was asked to continue and to widen those inquiries, both as part of a general anthropological survey and because a succession dispute had developed in the other Ngoni chiefdom in the same District. Whiteley had left a brief memorandum and a few notes which I was able to use as a starting-point. Some of the resulting data have been published elsewhere (Gulliver, 1954, 1955, and 1971). It is fitting, however, to return to those materials in memory of my old friend and colleague, and as a reminder of his sustained interest in social anthropology
Chiefdom · Ecological succession · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |