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Field name | Value |
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Reference | RICHARDS/1/20 |
Library/Archive | London School of Economics and Political Science |
Title | Nutrition I: food eaten |
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 |
Theme | Health and Nutrition; Farming and Agricultural Industrialisation; Food Rituals, Feasting and Religion; Food Preparation |
Subjects | agriculture grain food tradition food supply household food - social aspects nutrition diet gender: female etiquette |
Description | Notes by Audrey Richards and other authors on foods eaten; table illustrating the chief Bemba foodstuffs, and methods of preparing them; crops cultivated, the agricultural process involved and their uses; notes and draft article by Richards on crops grown and the sociological aspects of consumption; notes by Paul Mushindo on wild foods mostly mushrooms and caterpillars (written in Bemba); notes on beer; salt-making at Cibwa; domestic animals; 'Bemba digestive theory', essay by Paul Mushindo (written in Bemba); miscellaneous notes; calorie intake of Oregon farm workers; classification of two plants by Kew Gardens; notes on animal, agricultural and botanical research projects and centres; further notes on crops; eating etiquette; eating groups. |
Countries | Zambia; Zimbabwe |
Names | Mushindo, Paul |
Language | English; Bemba |
Document linked to |
Nutrition II: food diaries Nutrition III: food in selected villages |
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 |