HRAF -- 2.

CONTENTS 1. FIRST YEARS 1 2. SCHOOL DAYS 14 3. BUDDHIST BAPTISM 21 4. LIFE IN THE MONASTERY 30 5. TATTOOING 39 6. EAR-BORING 48 7. MARRIAGE 52 8. DOMESTIC LIFE 65 9. THE HOUSE AND ITS BELONGINGS 75 10. THE EARTH AND ITS BEGINNING 88 11. THE LADDER OF EXISTENCE 97 12. THE NOBLE ORDER OF THE YELLOW ROBE 107 13. THE MONASTERIES 124 14. SCHISMATICS 143 15. PAGODAS 153 16. THE LEGEND OF THE RANGOON PAGODA 179 17. IMAGES 184 18. BELLS 202 19. A PAGODA FEAST 211 20. DUTY DAYS 217 21. THE END OF LENT 223 22. NATS AND SPIRIT-WORSHIP 231 23. RICE CULTIVATION 243 24. A GRACIOUS PLOUGHING 257 25. A HARVEST FEAST 263 26. SILK-GROWING 269 27. LACQUER WARE 274 28. NGAPI 280 29. PLAYS 286 -xxv- Publication Information: Book Title: The Burman: His Life and Notions. Contributors: Shway Yoe - author, Sir James George Scott - author. Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1910. Page Number: xxv.

art and religion that reflect history

The Nigerian Nupe were mostly Islamisized when the author went there in 1934-6. He describes the underlying indigenous religion and deals with its beliefs, ritual, healing, witchcraft, divination ... and the effect of Islam upon it.

Missionary and amateur anthropologist John Roscoe (1861–1932) published this account of the Baganda tribe of Buganda in 1911, to preserve a record of a sophisticated people before their cultural traditions were undermined as their territory became part of the British Protectorate of Uganda. He had spent twenty-five years in Africa, during which he interviewed the people in their own languages about their customs and religious beliefs. The Baganda is a straightforward survey of a traditionally organised way of life. Birth, upbringing, marriage, death and burial, clans, kings, government, warfare, and other topics are treated in careful detail. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the longest chapter is on religion, but Roscoe makes non-judgmental observations on customs which did not fit with western morality. More recent anthropological research has amplified Roscoe's findings, but has found little to correct, and this remains a standard work on a culture about to undergo a massive transformation.