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ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF AFRICA

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Volume 1

PEOPLES OF THE
LAKE NYASA REGION

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PEOPLES OF THE
LAKE NYASA REGION

East Central Africa
Part I

MARY TEW

First published in 1950 for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press.

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1950 International African Institute

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ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF AFRICA

EDITED BY DARYLL FORDE

EAST CENTRAL AFRICA

PART I

PEOPLES OF THE LAKE NYASA REGION

BY
MARY TEW

Published for the
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE
by the
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
1950

Oxford University Press, Amen House, London E.C.4
GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON
BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS CAPE TOWN

Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher to the University

This study is one section of the Ethnographic Survey of Africa which the International African Institute is preparing with the aid of a grant made by the Secretary of State under the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts, on the recommendation of the Colonial Social Science Research Council.

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

FOREWORD

THE preparation of a comprehensive survey of the tribal societies of Africa was discussed by the Executive Council of the Institute as far back as 1937, but the interruption and restricting of its activities caused by the war resulted in the postponement of the project. Events and developments during the war led to a wider recognition of the need for collating and making more generally available the wealth of existing but unco-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples, particularly in connexion with plans for economic and social development. It appeared also that the International African Institute, as an international body which had received support from and performed services for the different colonial governments, was in a very favourable situation for undertaking such a task.

The Institute, therefore, in 1944, applied to the recently established British Colonial Social Science Research Council for a grant from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund to finance the preparation of an Ethnographic Survey of Africa, and a grant was allocated for a period of five years from 1945. A committee, under the Chairmanship of Professor Radcliffe-Brown, was appointed to consider the scope and form of the survey, and collaboration was established with research institutions in South Africa, Rhodesia, East Africa, French West Africa, Belgium, and the Belgian Congo.

The aim of the Ethnographic Survey is to present a concise, critical, and accurate account of our present knowledge of the tribal groupings, distribution, physical environment, social conditions, political and economic structure, religious beliefs and cult practices, technology, and art of the African peoples. The material is to be presented as briefly and on as consistent a plan as possible, and the text will be supplemented by maps and comprehensive bibliographies.

The Ethnographic Survey will be published as separate, self-contained studies, each devoted to one particular people or cluster of peoples. They will be grouped in a series of regional sections, viz. Western Africa, North-east Africa, West Central Africa, East Central Africa, Southern Africa. It is hoped that publication in this form will make the results more quickly and readily available to those interested in specific areas or groups. The sections of the survey will be published as they are completed, and a list of those in course of publication is given on the cover of this volume.

Since the unequal value and the generally unsystematic nature of the available information constituted a chief reason for undertaking this survey, it will be obvious that the material here presented can make no claim to be complete or definitive. Every effort has been made, however, to scrutinize all available literature and to check it by reference to unpublished sources and to workers actually in the field; thus it is intended to present a clear picture of our existing knowledge and to point out the directions in which the need for further studies is most pressing. Any assistance from those who are in a position to remedy deficiencies and correct inaccuracies by providing supplementary material will be greatly appreciated.

The International African Institute expresses its thanks to the Colonial Social Science Research Council for recommending the grant which has made possible the initiation of the work, and also to the many scholars, research workers, administrative officers, and missionaries in Europe, South Africa, and the various African territories who have so generously responded to our appeals for information and who have spared time to correct and add to the drafts.

We are especially indebted to Professor Max Gluckman who has supervised this contribution by Miss Mary Tew on the complex congeries of tribes in the region of Lake Nyasa. Our thanks are due to the Director and Trustees of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute for their assistance in making available unpublished material collected by the Institutes officers and bibliographical data. We are also grateful to Mr. J. A. Barnes and Mr. J. C. Mitchell for providing in advance of publication material from their field studies among the Ngoni and the Yao carried out on the behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute.

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