Social and Ritual Life of the Ambo of Northern Rhodesia
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2020
Series: Book 42 of 77 - African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
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- Title
- Social and Ritual Life of the Ambo of Northern Rhodesia
- Author
- Stefaniszyn, Bronislaw
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1138598526
- ISBN 13
- 9781138598522
- Series
- Book 42 of 77: African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
Originally published in 1964, this is a detailed ethnographic record and sympathetic study of Ambo beliefs and activities. The significance of the clan and the matrilineage are discussed and the organization of the village and chiefdom analysed. Childhood and puberty, marriage, death, succession and inheritance are covered, along with religious concpets and divination, with its stress on the importance of the high god.
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