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African kinship systems
Age Grade Organization
Ancestral Spirits
Author_Gunter Wagner
Bantu Kavirondo
Bantu tribes
Black God
Bride's Place
Bride’s Place
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Central Kavirondo
Christian doctrine
Church
Clan Community
colonial impact studies
Dead Man
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Evil Eye
Evil Magic
Female Guardians
Great Wife
Gunter Wagner
Harmful Magic
human life cycle
indigenous Kenyan cultural practices
Initiation Hut
Kavirondo
Kavirondo Gulf
kinship relations
lineage organisation
Magical Substance
magico-religious beliefs
Marriage Cattle
Mount Elgon
North Kavirondo
Nzoia River
Protective Magic
ritual anthropology
Ritual Impurity
Sham Fight
social structure analysis
South Africa
Swaziland
traditional culture
Vice Versa
Young Man
Zulu
Product details
- ISBN 9781138599246
- Weight: 1180g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1949, this is the first of 2 volumes studying the Bantu tribes inhabiting the westernmost part of Kenya. The book analyses family, lineage and clan structure, kinship relations and the various rituals connected with every stage of the human life cycle. Also included is a section on European colonization and its effects and the magico-religious and ceremonial aspects of tribal life.
