A01=E. Dora Earthy
African ethnography
Author_E. Dora Earthy
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Chief's Kraal
Chief’s Kraal
Cock's Comb
Cock’s Comb
Divining Bones
Dodonaea Viscosa
Earth Peas
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ethnographic research Portuguese East Africa
Father's Sister
Father's Sister's Children
Father’s Sister
Father’s Sister’s Children
gender roles Africa
Index Strings
indigenous belief systems
initiation rites
initiation rituals
kinship
kinship systems
material culture studies
Midday
Minus Pool
Mother's Brother's Widow
Mother’s Brother’s Widow
oral tradition
Petty Chiefs
Pine Apple
Pine Apple Plants
Portguese East Africa
Portuguese East Africa
Proximal Side
Red Ochre
rituals
Sclerocarya Caffra
social organisation
South African Tribe
Spiritualistic Seances
Trichilia Emetica
Valenge
Wife's Brother's Wife
Wife’s Brother’s Wife
Winnowing Tray
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138595507
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
