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Field name | Value |
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Reference | RICHARDS/1/19 |
Library/Archive | London School of Economics and Political Science |
Title | Economics III: fishing, hunting and technology |
Author/Creator | Richards, Audrey |
Date | 1930-1934 |
Collection | RICHARDS/1: Bemba alphabetical files, A-LL. 1930-1980 |
Collection Overview | Field notes produced by Audrey Richards during her fieldwork among the Bemba in what is now known as the Northern Province of Zambia. The Bemba fieldnotes were reorganised by Audrey Richards and her research assistant Linda Hunt and were divided into two sequences. The material was collected during two periods of fieldwork, one from 1930 to 1931 and the second (after a period of writing up in England) from 1933 to 1934. Some notes were also added after a brief subsequent visit in 1957. Section one corresponds to what Linda Hunt calls 'large files' and contains secondary material such as analysis of primary fieldnotes, draft articles and lectures, and detailed data from surveys, particularly concerning nutrition, agriculture and pattern of work. The other major category of material contained in this section is notes by other authors. These contributions fall into three major groups: European anthropologists (such as Epstein) and historians (such as Roberts and Tweedie); Bemba informants - notably Paul Mushindo and his son Patrick Mumba; and two Europeans who had positions in the colonial government of Northern Rhodesia and took an interest in the native inhabitants of the country, namely Vernon Brelsford and Tommy Fox-Pitt. |
Document Type | Diary; Ephemera; Correspondence |
Theme | Farming and Agricultural Industrialisation; Food Rituals, Feasting and Religion |
Subjects | agriculture food tradition food supply hunting technology rituals religion |
Description | Notes by Audrey Richards and other authors on fishing, hunting and technology concerning general notes on fishing; methods of fishing; the Buba poison method; fishing rights; essay referring to fishing communities along the Chambesi; fishing on Lake Bangweulu; list of Bemba words for fish; hunting: net-hunting and the associated myth and ritual; hunting horns; elephant hunting: methods and economic and sociological aspects, and associated rituals; a letter to Lorna Gore-Browne from Entebbe, Uganda about different species of birds; notes on huts and hut building; notes and diagrams showing construction details; dimensions of huts; village layout and hut floor plans; notes on the manufacturing of bark-cloth, pottery, copper; Bemba drums and commonly used rhythms; fire-making and notes on the ritual use of an iron-stand. |
Countries | Zambia; Zimbabwe |
Language | English; Bemba |
Document linked to |
Economics I: agricultural work diaries Economics II: seasonal changes in work and availability of food |
Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
Copyright and Source Archive | Material sourced from the London School of Economics and Political Science |