Originally published in 1963 this was the first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society was studied in detail and its implications explored. The Sonjo a Bantu-speaking people isolated among cattle pastoralists of what was Northern Tanganyika are remarkable for their complex irrigation system and political organization. The inter-connections between the irrigation system the religious cult of a culture hero and the special features of their social organization are at the core of this analysis. |The Sonjo of Tanganyika An Anthropological Study of an Irrigation-based Society | African Studies
