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Food
taboos - ritual foods - customs
The Sukuma diet, in the lake province
1956
Material for this study was collected
in Mwanza district in the following three
districts:
- Rumara, a lakeside parish of Ilemera
chiefdom
- Bunyamhanda, parish of Bunegeji
- Four parishes of Nassa chiefdom
Data an information is provided on:
- Taboos and food avoidances
Tables (in the Appendix):
- Food taboos and avoidances
- List of taboos concerning food which
had been encountered
 PDF:
A
preliminary enquiry into Sukama diet in
the Lake Province, Tanganyika Territory
Food Taboos of seven tribes
This article provides interesting insights
into the food taboos of the following
tribes:
- Wahehe
- Wagogo
- Waluguru
- Sukuma
- Wanyakyusa
- Wachaga
- Bahaya
Reference: Moller, M.
(1961). "African child health: custom,
pregnancy and child rearing in Tanganyika."
Journal of Tropical Paediatrics 7: 66-80,
Oxford Journals
Tribal customs and infant feeding
among the Chagga 1963
This article provides you with information
on:
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Feeding of the lactating mother and
her diet before breast feeding
- Taboos, customs and preferences
- Breast feeding and food items of the
infant
- Nurses
- The transition in the practices of childbirth,
nutrition and infant feeding
PDF:
Tribal customs in infant
feeding II-Among the Chagga
Forbidden foods in Uyui, Tabora region
in 1967
Read more about the food habits of the
Tabora region in the following article
and obtain information and data on:
- Food taboos
- Child feeding practices
- Food storage and processing
- Agriculture
- Facilities in the house
- Staple foods and their use
- Food groups and their contribution to
nutrient intake
- Calorie and nutrient fulfilled requirments,
intakes and sources
PDF:
Report
of a dietary survey in Tabora region_1967
Acceptance and consumption among the
Nykia group
PDF:
Socio-cultural
factors affecting the diet of the northeast
coastal Bantu 1964
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by Verena Raschke 2005
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