Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 1 (of 2) (Registro nro. 117087)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
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| Classification number | DT |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Macdonald, Duff, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1850-1929 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 1 (of 2) |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-06-23 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 1 (of 2) : Native customs…." by Rev. Duff Macdonald is an ethnographic and missionary account written in the late 19th century. It sets out to systematize the beliefs, practices, and social life of East Central African peoples from close field observation, especially around Blantyre and Lake Nyasa. The volume surveys religion, law, family life, arts, language, and governance through a missionary lens, aiming to inform and reform Christian mission methods while introducing readers to largely undocumented customs. The opening of the work explains the author’s purpose: to record customs before mission contact alters them, and to caution against missionaries assuming civil authority. He details the pitfalls of gathering reliable data—European bias in questions, “polite” answers from informants, interpreter and idiom traps (especially yes/no and before/after), and the distortions caused by note‑taking—then argues for the value of such study to psychology, ethnology, and the science of religion. Early chapters sketch first impressions: scant dress, heavy tattooing and lip rings, ubiquitous weapons, round smoke‑filled huts with rats, a predictable climate, maize porridge and beer, generous hospitality, light division of labor, and the local mosaic of Wayao, Machinga, Anyasa, Angulu, and Magololo chiefs; travel on winding footpaths, formal salutations, and women’s inferior status. Arts include ironworking, basketry, bark cloth, pottery, and simple music; “learned” roles blend herbalist and diviner, with witchcraft trials by poison and widespread charms. A rich oral literature—conundrums, sung tales with refrains, and word‑play chains—features animal fables and origin stories (pots, houses, death, monkeys). The theology section begins by defining spirit (lisoka, msimu, mulungu), treating the spirits of the dead as the operative gods, worshiped at verandah trees, bedsides, or mountain tops, and known through answered prayers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Simpkin, Marshall & co., 1882 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Missions -- Africa, East |
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| Uncontrolled term | Africa, East -- Social life and customs |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/africana01macd">https://archive.org/details/africana01macd</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76362">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76362</a> |
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