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Methods of Study of Culture Contact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

Monica Hunter
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Discussions on culture contact are liable to be unprofitable because there is no general agreement as to what culture contact is. I have used the fashionable label in my title, but do not wish to delay over definitions. In my field-work I was chiefly concerned with one aspect of culture contact in Africa—the changes taking place in a Bantu community as the result of its contact with Europeans, and it is my methods of studying that aspect which are described here. My interest in culture contact is primarily practical. I want to know for practical ends what effect European economic activities, European administration, education, and Christian teaching are having upon a Bantu community. The nature and extent of the changes taking place in the Bantu community are my first concern, the mechanism of change a secondary one.

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Research Article
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Africa , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , July 1934 , pp. 335 - 350
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1934

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References

page 342 note 1 The cattle which pass from the groom's group to that of the bride on marriage.

page 343 note 1 Most Europeans in Pondoland have camps on the coast to which they go for holidays.

page 343 note 2 Africa, vol. vi, no. 3, 1935.

page 344 note 1 When a ritual killing is made for a sick person the gall is sometimes poured over them, and a strip of hide tied round their necks.

page 349 note 1 Bartlett, Psychology and Primitive Culture.