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Rituals of kinship among the Nyakyusa.

Title
Rituals of kinship among the Nyakyusa.
Author
Wilson, Monica, 1908-1982.
Publication
London, New York, Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press, 1957.

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Description
xi, 278 pages illustrations, tables; 23 cm
Subject
  • Kinship > Tanzania
  • Nyakyusa (African people)
  • Kinship
  • Ethnology > Tanzania
  • Nyakyusa (peuple d'Afrique)
  • Tanzania
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
Burial rites -- Farewell to the dead -- The ritual of puberty and marriage -- The ritual of birth -- The ritual of abnormal birth -- Rituals of misfortune -- The participants -- The Nyakyusa conception of reality -- The sociological analysis of the rituals of kinship -- Reports of particular funerals -- Local variations in the death ritual -- Marriage negotiations and gifts -- Misfortunes attributed to the shades -- Causes of misfortune -- Participants in rituals illustrated by genealogies.
ISBN
  • 0198231660
  • 9780198231660
LCCN
57002667
OCLC
  • ocm00228306
  • 228306
  • SCSB-142584
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library