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The Lele of the Kasai
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This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists. The intellectural tools and examples she gained from Africanist ethnography continue to serve her explorations of European and American society.
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INDEX
Adultery, 74, 75, 76, 109–10, 111, 122–124, 126, 145, 160, 169, 174, 177, 217–19, 231, 233
Age,
see Old men,
see Age-set,
see Age-mate
— of marriage, 116–18, 145
Age-mate, 73–6, 103–4, 125, 193, 195, 198, 213
Age-set, 38, 70, 76–84, 89–91, 181, 223
— Common-wife of,
see Village-wife,
see Old men
Agriculture, 33, 34, 36–7, 45–6, 51, 260–1
Alternation
— of age-sets, 78, 84
— of generations, 104
Ancestors
— return of, 244
see Baotale, 204
see Ghosts
Anti-Sorcery cults, 7, 99, 244 seq., 256, 257
Aristocrats, 14–15, 129, 160
see Chief, ch. X, 186 seq., 191 seq., 269
Ashanti, 166
Authority
— absence of, 1, 2, 3, 7, 49, 84, 101, 154, 173, 201, 202, 204
— absence of, between women, 126, 224, 270
Avoidance, 80, 103–4, 120, 124, 127, 133–4
Bachelor, 4, 75, 89, 98, 128, 209, 223
Bagehot, 202
Bahaka, officials of, poison ordeal, 242
Baput,
see Bachelor
Baotale,
see Old men, 103, 223
see Ancestors, 204
Barter,
see Trade
Basongo-Meno, 13
Basongo, 17, 176, 194, 201, 260
Belgian administration, 7–8, 13, 137, 148, 152, 200, 201, 257, 259 seq.
see Tribunals
Begetters’ cult...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface to New Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I The Lele on the Map
- II The Productive Side of the Economy
- III Distribution of Wealth
- IV The Village: Offices and Age-Sets
- V Clans
- VI Marriage: I. The Private Wife and Private Family
- VII Marriage: II. The Communal Village-Wife and Communal Family
- VIII Blood Debts
- IX The Village: As Creditor and Debtor
- X The Role of the Aristocratic Clan in Relations between Villages
- XI Religious Sanctions on Village Unity and the Organization of Village Cults
- XII Sorcery
- XIII Control of Sorcery
- XIV European Impact on Lele Society
- Appendix A: Documentation of South Homba
- Appendix B: Bibliographic References
- Index