Zeitschrift für Ethnologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde und der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde und der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 119.1994

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde und der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 119.1994

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Titel:: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde und der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte

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Erscheinungsjahr:: 1989

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde und der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 119.1994

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1994

Signatur:: LA 7600

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 119, 1994, Heft 2

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Titel:: The marks of prestige of Yao village headmen: A reanalysis

Sonstige Person:: Mitchell, J. Clyde

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

The marks of prestige of Yao village headmen: A reanalysis J. Clyde Mitchell 25 Staunton Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7IJ, England Abstract: Data collected during fieldwork among the Yao of Malawi in 1946-50 and published in the second edition of the author's book 77e Yao village were analyzed using techniques developed since the book was published. Using these techniques it proved possible to show that certain social features were statistically associated with marks of prestige more than others. The ethnographic problem Between 1946 and 1950 I made an ethnographic study of the Yao people of Southern Nyasaland (now Malawi). A report of some of my findings was published in 1957 and a revised edition in 1963 (Mitchell 1963). During the course of my fieldwork it was obvious from everyday observation that some village headmen were treated with much more reverence than others. I reported this in the first edition of The Yao village but this was in terms of my general observation. During my fieldwork nevertheless I was able to collect some numerical data relating to the indicators of prestige. This information was based on what I had learnt from watching people and talking to them about what they reacted to when they treated a particular village headmen with honour. I well remember, for example, meeting a headman walking down a bush road with a group of his followers. He presented a magnificent sight with his imperious bearing, swinging a 40 centimeter knife and wearing a striking red turban. In conversation with the people I was with I found out that he was a matrilineal descendant of one of the original Yao invaders some 100 years previously and commanded a very large village. Furthermore he referred to the local chief as his father-in-law, and that he had the right to conduct initiation ceremonies for both boys and girls. Like many other village headmen he, as well as the local chief was a Muslim. During the rest of my fieldwork I made a special effort to collect as much quantitative data relating to these indicators of prestige that I could. In the first edition of the book I was not able to present these quantitative data. In the revised edition I was able to present these Quantitative data in an appendix. (Mitchell 1963: 169-173) In addition I tried to Present some analysis of this material. This was, of course, before the days of computers Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie 119 (1994) 267-272 Â© 1995 Dietrich Reimer Verlag

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