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Valenge Women: Social and Economic Life of the Valenge Women of Portuguese East Africa: African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century

Autor E. Dora Earthy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 aug 2018
When first published in 1933, this monograph shed new light on the life of the Valenge women of Portuguese East Africa. It discusses their social organisations, family relationships, education, tribal customs, and contains detailed information concerning initiation rites, religion, magic and sorcery. The volume collects a large number of native texts, rituals and formulae, thereby converting oral tradition into material of great value not only to students of Africcan ethnography but also to anthropologists more widely.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138594975
ISBN-10: 1138594970
Pagini: 306
Ilustrații: 36
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Origin and History 2. Social Organization and Kinship System 3. Valenge Women: Their Homesteads 4. The Agricultural Year 5. Material Culture 6. Birth Rites 7. Early Education 8. Games 9. String Figures 10. Tatuing, Scarification and Tribal Marks 11. Puberty, Initiation 12. Marriage, Relation Between the Sexes 13. Death 14. Dances 15. Religion, Magic and Sorcery 16. Folklore and Proverbs. Conclusion. Appendix: The Sibs of Gazaland

Recenzii

The International African Institute might well authorize the publication of a book planned and executed in so scientific a spirit.' Times Literary Supplement

Descriere

When first published in 1933, this monograph shed new light on the life of the Valenge women of Portuguese East Africa. It discusses their social organisations, family relationships, education, tribal customs, and contains detailed information concerning initiation rites, religion, magic and sorcery.