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Social and Ritual Life of the Ambo of Northern Rhodesia
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Social and Ritual Life of the Ambo of Northern Rhodesia
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Originally published in 1964, this is a detailed ethnographic record and sympathetic study of Ambo beliefs and activities. The significance of the clan and the matrilineage are discussed and the organization of the village and chiefdom analysed. Childhood and puberty, marriage, death, succession and inheritance are covered, along with religious concpets and divination, with its stress on the importance of the high god.
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Yes, you can access Social and Ritual Life of the Ambo of Northern Rhodesia by Bronislaw Stefaniszyn, Raymond Apthorpe in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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INDEX
Administration, xix, 50, 51, 66
Adulterer, 64; prohibition, 74; at childbirth, 76; case of, 116; killed, 121
Adultery, wife cannot sue for, 74; occasion to, 102; as reason for divorce, 116; dream of, 148; supernatural sanction, 108
Affinal relatives, 16-18; segments, 29; see mother-, father-, son- and daughter-in-law.
Agnate, 31; agnates in village, 42
Agnatic segments, 29; kin, 153
Ancestor, shrine, 64; to be remembered, 85
Ancestress of matrilineage, 78
Attitude, to clansmen, 4; to supernatural world, 139
Aushi, 57, 58
Avoidance rules, relaxation of, 16, 20; of son-in-law, 17; of married couple, 108; see prohibitions.
bakali (pl.), chief’s henchmen, bodyguard, 60, 63, 64
bako (pl.), see muko, mukweni.
bakwabo (pl.), see mukwabo.
balaye (pl.), diviner-herbalist, 139
bamapasa (pl.), twins of different sex, 78
bampundu (pl.), twins of same sex, 78
bambuya (pl.), grand-parent,
bamfumu (pl.), chief, 65
bamubala (pl.), Mboshya’s court officials, 50
bana (pl.), see mwana.
banakalumbwana, mother of little boy, 81
bankonko, lesser diviners, 139
banugwe (pl.), see munungwe.
Bayambo (pl.), shades of Twa hunters, 159
Bayongo, Bemba, xxii
Beads, white for child, 83, 84, 86; at courtship, 102, 103, 104; at redemption, 131, 143, 144, 146; for hunting guardian shade, 145
Beer party, man looks for, 19; funeral, 60, 62; for guardian shade, 84, 85; for initiation, 94, 97; for chief, 63; for son-in-law, 106; funeral, 131; final, 133; offering, private, 143-4; to dream of, 147; offering, public, 155
Bemba, xxii, 59, 64, 65, 66; Bemba father, 21
Bembaland, xxi
bene, see mwine.
Bewitch, to, for offence, for accusation, for stinginess, 94
Birth, of child ends probation, 20; consequences, 109; mother at childbirth, 76; prohibitions at, 74...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Maps, Diagrams and Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Clan and Matrilineage
- II. The Village
- III. Chieftainship
- IV. Childhood and Puberty
- V. Marriage
- VI. Death, Succession and Inheritance
- VII. Religion and Divination
- Bibliography
- Index