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AFRICAN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES
OF THE 20TH CENTURY

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Volume 11

ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION

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ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION

An Experiment in the Iringa District of the
Iringa Province Tanganyika Territory

G. GORDON BROWN AND A. MCD
BRUCE HUTT

First published in 1935 by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute.

This edition first published in 2018

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1935 International African Institute

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ANTHROPOLOGY
IN ACTION

AN EXPERIMENT IN THE IRINGA
DISTRICT OF THE IRINGA PROVINCE
TANGANYIKA TERRITORY

By

G. GORDON BROWN, M.A., P H .D.

and

A. M C D. BRUCE HUTT, B.A. ( OXON .)

With an Introduction by

P. E. MITCHELL, C.M.G., M.C.

CHIEF SECRETARY , TANGANYIKA
TERRITORY

WITH 1 MAP AND 4 APPENDICES

Published for the

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF
AFRICAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES

by the OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD
1935

CONTENTS

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HUMPHREY MILFORD

PUBLISHER TO THE
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PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

T HIS monograph is the outcome of an experiment made by the authors in an attempt to discover to what extent anthropological knowledge can be made applicable to the problems surrounding the administration of an African tribe. The experiment was carried out over a period of one year, amongst the Hehe tribe, who inhabit the District of Iringa, in the Iringa Province of the Tanganyika Territory. One of the authors, Mr. Brown, has been doing anthropological field-work among the Hehe since August 1932, and, in a previous expedition, from March 1930 to July 1931. The other author, Mr. Hutt, has been District Officer of the Iringa District since May 1932. They are referred to in the monograph as the anthropologist and the administrator respectively.

The conduct of the experiment and the writing of the monograph is a joint effort throughout; but the information and the opinions given in Chapters II and III are the responsibility of Mr. Brown alone. Both authors accept responsibility for the opinions expressed and the conclusions reached in Chapters I and IV.

The authors wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to Mr. P. E. Mitchell, C.M.G., M.C., Secretary for Native Affairs in the Tanganyika Territory. It was he who originally suggested the experiment; his assistance and advice have been of great value throughout its course and during the writing of the book; and the authors feel that the value of the latter has been materially enhanced by his Introduction.

Mr. Brown also wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to the Rockefeller Foundation, whose assistance made possible both his expeditions to the field; to the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, who generously assisted his second expedition; and to his wife, Elizabeth Fisher Brown, who has been associated with him in all his field-work, and who has collected much of the material utilized in these pages.

It will be noted that, in the descriptive chapters, facts are given without the proof or the corroboration which are ordinarily expected in an anthropological monograph. Both during the preliminary part of the experiment and when writing the book, it was considered more profitable to state facts as simply as possible, leaving the proofs for further publications. The essence of the experiment was the presentation of useful facts to a non-specialist, that he might apply them to current requirements; and the presentation of masses of proofs would have complicated matters unnecessarily.

G. GORDON BROWN.

BRUCE HUTT.

December 1934.

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Now Chief Secretary.

PHONETIC NOTE

N O attempt is made in this book to give exact phonetic symbols. The vowels are as in Italian. Of the consonants, g and k are frontal, the sounds approximating to j and ch respectively, when followed by the vowels e or i. l is cerebral, v is bilabial, and the others are as in English. The symbols ng for and ch as in English have been retained, on account of their widespread use in East Africa.

M Y D EAR H UTT ,

On my recent visit to Iringa you and Gordon Brown and I had some discussion about a proposal I made to you some time ago that you and he should make a practical experiment in co-operation between a District Officer administering his District and an anthropologist carrying out research work in it. You have already put the proposal into practice to a certain extent, and in order to give it a more definite form you have asked me to outline it for you on paper. I will try to do so.

In the field of what is commonly called native administration a policy of local government has been adopted in Tanganyika designed to provide the framework within which the administrative, social, and economic progress of the people might be promoted from foundations resting on their past, compatible with their present, and suited to their future.

It is important in relation to the work which you propose to do to understand clearly the implications of this policy, which may be very briefly summarized by saying that it aims at an administrative system deriving from and resting on local organizations, loyalties, and traditions, but compelled by the supervision of a trained British staff to assure to the people proper standards of security, honesty, justice, and efficiency. It cannot be static, but must always be capable of development or modification; it is a means, and not an end, a means of achieving at least certain minimum requirements; and if it fail in that, it is for the British staff to take the steps that may be judged necessary.

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