The Sonjo of Tanganyika
An Anthropological Study of an Irrigation-based Society| By: | Robert F. Gray |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138589612 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780429958182 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1963 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society was studied in detail and its implications explored. The Sonjo, a Bantu-speaking people isolated among cattle pastoralists of what was Northern Tanganyika, are remarkable for their complex irrigation system and political organization. The inter-connections between the irrigation system, the religious cult of a culture hero, and the special features of their social organization are at the core of this analysis.