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Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.

Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:

Physical Environment
Linguistic Data
Demography
History & Traditions of Origin
Nomenclature
Grouping
Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial
Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice
Economy & Trade
Domestic Architecture

Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo.

The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

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ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF AFRICA

Volume 24

The Southern Sotho

First published in 1953 by the International African Institute.

This edition first published in 2017
by Routledge
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1953 International African Institute

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ISBN: 978-1-138-23217-4 (Set)
ISBN: 978-1-315-30463-2 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-23456-7 (Volume 24) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-23460-4 (Volume 24) (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-30651-3 (Volume 24) (ebk)

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ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF AFRICA

EDITED BY DARYLL FORDE

Southern Africa

PART II

The Southern Sotho

BY
V. G. J. SHEDDICK

LONDON
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE
1953

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 ENGLAND BY
HAZELL, WATSON & VINEY, L TD
LONDON AND AYLESBURY

T HE 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 recent years, however, have led to a wider recognition of the need for collating and making more generally available the wealth of existing but uncoordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples, particularly in connection with plans for economic and social development. Moreover, it appeared that the International African Institute, as an international body which has 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 worked out a scheme for the preparation of an Ethnographic Survey of Africa. 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. A grant from the British Colonial Development and Welfare Fund was awarded on the recommendation of the Colonial Social Science Research Council for the purpose of preparing the Survey.

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 presented as briefly and on as consistent a plan as possible, and the text is supplemented by maps and comprehensive bibliographies.

The Ethnographic Survey is being published as a series of separate, self-contained studies, each devoted to one particular people or group of related peoples. It is hoped that publication in this form will make the results more quickly and readily available to those interested in specific areas and groups. A list of the sections which have already appeared is given on p. 88 of this volume.

Since the unequal value and 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 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 study 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 desires to thank African Governments and individual officers, and the many scholars, research workers and missionaries in Europe, South Africa and the various African territories who have made available unpublished documents, supplied information and most generously spared time to criticize, correct, and amplify the drafts.

D ARYLL F ORDE ,
Director ,
International African Institute.

Contents

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One of the first difficulties met with in a general or comparative study of the peoples of Southern Africa is that of nomenclature. These people are known by a number of well recognized terms, the use of which causes no difficulty to the layman on the spot, but confusion arises when territorial and historical relationships axe considered. To meet the requirements of research, a number of arbitrary conventional labels have been adopted.

The peoples of Africa south of the Zambesi and east of the Kalahari fall broadly into four distinct groups: the Venda, the Tsonga, the Nguni, and the Sotho. The term Sotho is now generally used to indicate the peoples of the central high grasslands of southern Africa. These people constitute a well-defined ethnographical group characterized by a considerable degree of cultural and linguistic homogeneity.

The present distribution of the Sotho people extends over British Bechuanaland and the Bechuanaland Protectorate, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal (exclusive of alien enclaves in the north-west and south-east) and Basutoland, together with adjacent portions of the Ciskei and Transkei territories. In addition there are representatives in south-west Southern Rhodesia, South West Africa, and in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia.

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