How would you analyze the Swazi Ncwala?
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 69, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: Kuper's (1944) original account of the ritual of Incwala in the Swazi territoriy in Southern Africa has spurred an immense literature over the past seventy years. From sociological-functionalist accounts focusing on the Incwala as a ritual of 'internal rebellion' (Gluckman, 1953,1960) over a symbolist focus on the metaphorical power of the King's separation (Beidelman, 1966) to the historical embedding of different forms of the Incwala (Kuper, 1972; Lincoln 1987), no singular interpretation seems adequat…
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- ISBN: 978-3-656-46444-0
- EAN: 9783656464440
- Produktnummer: 24283970
- Verlag: GRIN Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 10 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'344 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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