Rangi (ethnic group)

The Rangi are an ethnic and linguistic group based in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania. In 1999 the Rangi population was estimated to number 350,000 [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lag] .

The Rangi call their language "Kilaangi", though it is more commonly known as Rangi or Kirangi.

References

*Fosbrooke, H.A. 1958 “Blessing the Year: a Wasi/Rangi Ceremony”, "Tanganyika Notes and Records" 50, 21-2
*Fosbrooke, H.A. 1958 “A Rangi Circumcision Ceremony: Blessing a New Grove”, "Tanganyika Notes and Records" 50, 30-36
*Gray, R.F. 1953 “Notes on Irangi Houses”, "Tanganyika Notes and Records" 35, 45-52
*Kesby, J. 1981 “The Rangi of Tanzania: An introduction to their culture”, HRAF: Yale
*Kesby, J. 1982 “Progress and the past among the Rangi of Tanzania”, HRAF: Yale
*Kesby, J. 1986 “Rangi natural history: The taxonomic procedures of an African people”, HRAF: Yale
*Maingu, Yovin & Brunhilde Bossow, 2006 "Mazingira ya Warangi na Wajerumani wa Kale", Published by "Heimat- und Kulturverein Gellersen" (Society for History and Culture of the Gellersen villages, Germany)
*Masare, A.J. 1970 “Utani Relationships: The Rangi”, unpublished manuscript, Dar es Salaam
*Mung’ong’o, Claude G. 1995 “Social Processes and Ecology in the Kondoa Irangi Hills, Central Tanzania”, Stockholm University, Dept. of Human Geography, Meddlanden Series B 93
*Östberg, W. 1979 “The Kondoa Transformation”, research report no. 76, SIAS: Uppsala