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The kalela dance : aspects of social relationships among urban Africans in Northern Rhodesia / by J. Clyde Mitchell.

Title
The kalela dance : aspects of social relationships among urban Africans in Northern Rhodesia / by J. Clyde Mitchell.
Author
Mitchell, J. Clyde (James Clyde), 1918-
Publication
[Manchester] : Published on behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute by the Manchester University Press, 1956.

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Book/TextRequest in advance L.SOC.98.47.76.20 (27) 1979Off-site
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Additional Authors
Rhodes-Livingstone Institute.
Description
viii, 52 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
The Rhodes-Livingstone papers ; no. 27
Uniform Title
The Rhodes-Livingstone papers ; no. 27.
Subject
  • Kalela (Dance)
  • Zambia > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [50]-52.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- Kalela -- The dancing teams -- The song -- The origin of the dance -- Mbeni -- Prestige and the 'European way-of-life' -- Tribalism in towns -- Tribal distance -- Tribalism and categorical relationships -- Tribalism and urban administration -- Joking tribes in towns -- Kalela in the urban situation -- Appendix I. Occupational prestige ranking -- Appendix II. Ranking of tribes from the point of view of different ethnic groups -- Bibliography -- Frontispiece. A Kalela dance in progress in the Luanshya Management Board location, 17th June 1951.
LCCN
^^^58003859^/L/r
OCLC
  • 1298452
  • SCSB-9935159
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library