Man, Past and PresentKeane, A. H. (Augustus Henry)
History
Man, Past and Present
Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry)
Anthropology; Ethnology
The Sudanese-Bantu Divide--Frontier Tribes--_The Bonjo Cannibals_--
_The Baya Nation_--A "Red People"--The North-East Door to
Bantuland--Semitic Elements of the Bantu Amalgam--Malay Elements
in Madagascar only--Hamitic Element everywhere--_The Ba-Hima_--
Pastoral and Agricultural Clans--The Bantus mainly a Negro-Hamitic
Cross--Date of Bantu Migration--The _Lacustrians_--Their
Traditions--The Kintu Legend--_The Ba-Ganda_, Past and Present--
Political and Social Institutions--Totemic System--Bantu Peoples
between Lake Victoria and the Coast--_The Wa-Giryama_--Primitive
Ancestry-Worship--Mulungu--_The Wa-Swahili_--The Zang Empire--_The
Zulu-Xosas_--Former and Present Domain--Patriarchal Institutions--
Genealogies--Physical Type--Social Organisation--"Common Law"--
_Ma-Shonas_ and _Ma-Kalakas_--The mythical Monomotapa Empire--The
Zimbabwe Ruins--_The Be-Chuanas_--_The Ba-Rotse_ Empire--_The
Ma-Kololo_ Episode--Spread of Christianity amongst the Southern
Bantus--King Khama--_The Ova-Herero_--_Cattle and Hill Damaras_--
_The Kongo People_--Old Kongo Empire--The Kongo Language--The
Kongo Aborigines--Perverted Christian Doctrines--_The Kabindas_ and
"_Black Jews_"--_The Ba-Shilange_ Bhang-smokers--_The Ba-Lolo_ "Men
of Iron"--The West Equatorial Bantus--_Ba-Kalai_--_The Cannibal
Fans_--Migrations, Type, Origin--_The Camerun Bantus_--
Bantu-Sudanese Borderland--Early Bantu Migrations--Eastern
Ancestry and Western Nature-worshippers--Conclusion--_Vaalpens_--
_Strandloopers_--_Negrilloes_--Negrilloes at the Courts of the
Pharaohs--Negrilloes and Pygmy Folklore--_The Dume_ and _Doko_
reputed Dwarfs--_The Wandorobbo_ Hunters--_The Wochua_ Mimics--
_The Bushmen and Hottentots_--Former and Present Range--_The
Wa-Sandawi_--Hottentot Geographical Names in Bantuland--Hottentots
disappearing--Bushman Folklore Literature--Bushman-Hottentot
Language and Clicks--Bushman Mental Characters--Bushman Race-Names.
CONSPECTUS.
#Present Range.# Bantu: _S. Africa from the Sudanese frontier to the
Cape_; Negrillo: _West Equatorial and Congo forest zones_; Bush.-Hot.:
_Namaqualands_; _Kalahari_; _Lake Ngami and Orange basins_.
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