Zulu Names, Polygyny and Gender Politics in Traditional Societies
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- ISBN 9781869144708
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2021
- Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
- Publication City/Country: ZA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Zulu Names, Polygyny and Gender Politics in Traditional Societies provides illuminating insight into Zulu polygynous families. It examines how Zulu anthroponyms used in respect of the living-dead reflect social behaviour patterns within homesteads. Names become social outlets for sentiments of hostility and ill-feelings caused by quarrels between co-wives and in-laws. Zungu considers the challenge of plural marriages and the use of witchcraft to fight for the husband's love and affection.
Names are also used to reflect and ward off evil spirits, which may cause illness and death. Despite the influence of globalisation and modernity, anthroponyms reflect mystical arts and occultism (whether real or imagined) in traditional societies, and they are effective oral strategies between family members and/or community members.
Names are also used to reflect and ward off evil spirits, which may cause illness and death. Despite the influence of globalisation and modernity, anthroponyms reflect mystical arts and occultism (whether real or imagined) in traditional societies, and they are effective oral strategies between family members and/or community members.
Evangeline Bonisiwe Zungu is a senior lecturer in African Languages at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her areas of interest include onomastics, sociolinguistics and language acquisition, and she has been involved in terminology development since 2007. Zungu has served as the executive secretary of the isiZulu Commission (2018–2020) under the Academy of African Languages (a sub-structure of the African Union). She is currently the deputy chair of the isiZulu National Language Body, which is a Pan South African Language Board structure.
