Witchcraft, Sorcery and Social Categories Among the Safwa
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Witchcraft, Sorcery and Social Categories Among the Safwa

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Witchcraft, Sorcery and Social Categories Among the Safwa

About this book

Originally published in 1970, this book explores the role of concepts of disease in the social life of the Safwa of Tanzania, particularly through beliefs concerning witchcraft and sorcery. Examining Safwa ideas about the cuasation of disease and death and the use of aetiological terms in actual cases, it demonstrates a parallel between these ideas and terms, on the one hand and the Safwa system of social categories on the other. A descrption of the Safwa environment, way of life and social system is followed by an account of the concepts of death and disease and of their causes as revealed in ancestor rites, divination and autopsy. An analysis of case histories demonstrates that the cause assigned to a particular instance of illness or death depends upon the status relationship between discputing parties who are associated with the patient. The way in which the parallel between aetiological and social categoeis helps to control the outcome of disputes is also examined.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781138594203
eBook ISBN
9780429950629
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

INDEX

Abibanza (the general public), 12, 14, 34
AbinΞ΅, see Trading partners
Abitonga (sing., omwitonga), df. 152; see Itonga, Witchcraft
Agriculture: agricultural cycle, 50; cash crops, 7; crops, 5; division of labour, 5–6; organisation of fields, 16–17
Aholo (kinsmen), 34
Akuba (clairvoyants), 45, 46
Alagule, see Divination
Amaya (β€˜complications’), df. 151; 68, 79–80, 108–9, 116
Ambuda, 149–50
Ancestors: categories, 34; control of weather by, 17; infliction of empongo by, 55–7, 79, 116–17; protection of descendants, 9, 17, 30, 44–6, 79, 97
Ancestral rites, Plates II, III, and IV; occasions for, 17, 22, 26, 32, 33, 37–8, 116–17; procedures, 32–7, 93, 95
Apena (sing., ompena), df. 152; see Stranger-dependants
Asians, 6, 7
Autopsies: ban on, 54–5, 80, 106–7; diagnosis by, 60–1, 67, 68, 84, 110, 114–15; incidence of, 16, 54–5, 106–7
Avoidances, 28
Azande tribe, 69–71, 140
Bachmann, Traugott, 1 fn. 1
Barrenness and Infertility, 50, 51, 61, 112 Table VI, 131, 141, 144
Barth, Fredrik, 9
Beer-drinking: at ancestral rites, 17, 18, 32, 35–6, 37, 102; at birth ceremony, 28; by co-operative work groups, 6, 147; during marriage contract, 27, 28
Beidelman, T. O., 72
Birth, see Childbirth
Borrowing of new concepts: Supreme Being, 34–5; ambuda, 149–50
Brock, Beverley, 1 fn. 1, 2
Bohannan, Paul, xvii fn. 6, 74
Bride-service, 27
Bridewealth, 16, 67 fn. 4; acquisition of,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. LIST OF PLATES
  7. Preface
  8. A note on Safwa orthography
  9. Introduction
  10. I. AN INTRODUCTION TO MWANABANTU AREA
  11. II. DISEASE, DEATH, DEVIANCE, AND THE ANCESTORS
  12. III. SAFWA AETIOLOGICAL CATEGORIES
  13. IV. AETIOLOGICAL CATEGORIES AND THE DIAGNOSIS OF EMPONGO
  14. V. A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE AETIOLOGY OF EMPONGO
  15. VI. CONCLUSION
  16. Appendix
  17. Glossary
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index