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‘THE CHILD OF DEATH’: PERSONAL NAMES AND PARENTAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS MORTALITY IN BUNYORO, WESTERN UGANDA, 1900–2005 – CORRIGENDUM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

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Abstract

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Corrigendum
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

There were errors in Figures 3, 4 and 6 in the paper by S. Doyle (Reference Shane2008) for which the author and editors apologize. During the transfer of the graphs between different programs, the software automatically reconfigured the y axes so that the totals appeared in numerical rather than percentage format. This resulted in the name category totals being represented as, for example, 0·1, 0·2, 0·3 rather than 10%, 20%, 30%, etc. The correct version of Figures 3, 4 and 6 are given below.

Fig. 3. The changing frequency of religious names.

Fig. 4. The frequency of mortality-related names in colonial Bunyoro.

Fig. 6. The frequency of mortality-related names in postcolonial Bunyoro.

References

Shane, Doyle, ‘“The child of death”: personal names and parental attitudes towards mortality in Bunyoro, western Uganda, 1900–2005’, The Journal of African History, 49 (2008), 361–82.Google Scholar
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Fig. 3. The changing frequency of religious names.

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Fig. 4. The frequency of mortality-related names in colonial Bunyoro.

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Fig. 6. The frequency of mortality-related names in postcolonial Bunyoro.