Tonga Religious Life in the Twentieth Century
The religious life of the Tonga-speaking peoples of southern Zambia is examined over the last century, in the sense of how they have thought about the nature of their world, the meaning of their own lives, and the sources of good and evil in which their cosmology and society have been transformed. The twelve chapters cover Time, Space and Language; Basic Themes, Tonga Religious Vocabulary and its Referents; the Vocabulary of Shrines and Substance; Homestead and Bush; Ritual Communities and Actors; Rituals of the Life Course; Death and its Rituals; Evil and Witchcraft; and Christianity and Tonga Experience. The author has drawn on dairies by r…
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- ISBN: 978-9982-24-045-1
- EAN: 9789982240451
- Produktnummer: 3255608
- Verlag: Bookworld Publ.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 316 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 404 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 404
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