Main entry:

Walton, James.

Title & Author:

African village / James Walton.

Publication:

Pretoria, South Africa : Van Schaik, 1956.

Description:

xi, 170 pages, 58 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-164 and index).
PART I. Southern Africa before the arrival of the Bantu -- PART II. Early Sotho-Tswana settlement in South Africa -- Material culture of the early Sotho-Tswana -- PART III. Bantu settlement in southern Rhodesia and northern Transvaal -- Iron age -- Zimbabwe ruins "Azanian" settlement of Eastern Rhodesia -- PART IV. Bantu homes and kraals -- Bantu hut types -- Lelapa -- Wall decoration -- Granaries -- Bantu kraal.

Summary:

This book is based on field work and study over the past eight years but the story is far from complete. Published accounts of African cultures rarely refer to the huts or kraals and details of the vernacular architecture of the hundreds of tribes in Southern Africa are almost non-existent. The same is true of material culture in general. But architects, ethnologists and archaeologists are beginning to take more interest in African folk building and it is hoped that in a few years time detailed studies of individual tribal cultures will be available to complete the many gaps which must unavoidably occur in a work of this nature.

Subject:

Black people Dwellings Africa, Southern.
Black people Africa Social life and customs.
Dwellings Africa, Southern.
Villages Africa, Southern.
Village communities Africa, Southern.
Habitations Afrique australe.
Villages Afrique australe.
Communautés rurales Afrique australe.
Personnes noires Afrique Mœurs et coutumes.
Black people Dwellings
Black people Social life and customs
Dwellings
Village communities
Villages
Africa
Southern Africa

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270625
Call No.: BIB 203427
Status: Available