The missionary and ethnography in Malawi: a study of the Maravi and the Yao to 1920

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Title:	The missionary and ethnography in Malawi: a study of the Maravi and the Yao to 1920
Author:	Lamba, I.C.
Year:	1985
Periodical:	The Society of Malawi Journal
Volume:	38
Issue:	1
Pages:	62-79
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Malawi
Subjects:	Nyanja Yao
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778530
Abstract:	This essay seeks to point out mainly missionary attempts at recording tribal profiles. The descriptive approach adopted dwells on missionary accounts of their conception or misconceptions of such systems. To the social anthropologists missionary records, which must be taken as quite raw, bear enormous theoretical limitations, which a historian may fail to discern clearly. But both anthropologists and historians have gleaned from missionary writings some useful tribal data. This paper focuses on two tribal groups: the Mang'anja-Chewa (Maravi) and the Yao. Not everything about these tribes can possibly be included, so only certain aspects like religion and politics are presented. - Notes.