%0 Book Section
%T Symbols of life: an analysis of the consciousness of the Karanga
%A Aschwanden, Herbert
%A Cooper, Ursula
%B Shona heritage series
%D 1982
%N No. 3
%I Mambo Press
%C Gweru, Zimbabwe
%@ 0869221728
%G English
%F fs05-020
%O by Herbert Aschwanden in collaboration with the Karanga Nurses of the Musiso Hospital at Zaka, Zimbabwe ; English translation by Ursula Cooper
%O LOC search performed 9 March 2012
%O Translation of: Symbole des Lebens. Continued by: Symbols of death. 1987
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%X The is a study of symbolism in the oral tradition of the Karanga subgroup, taken from their point of view (continued in Aschwanden et al., 1987). Nearly all the data came from people in a hospital where the author, a physician, was assisted in the collection of information by a group of missionary nurses. After discussing symbols in human society in general, there is a turn to specific symbols in Karanga daily life referring to the soul, the person, childhood and education, puberty, marriage, relations between the sexes, sexual intercourse, pregnancy, and birth.
%K Karanga (African people)
%K Shona
%K Barwe
%K Hera
%K Kalanga
%K Karanga
%K Korekore
%K Manyika
%K Mashona
%K Ndau
%K Rozwi
%K Tawara
%K Ungwe
%K Zezuru
%K Theoretical orientation in research and its results
%K Animism
%K Ethnopsychology
%K Ethnophysics
%K Life and death
%K Puberty and initiation
%K Pregnancy
%K Childbirth
%K Arranging a marriage
%K Mode of marriage
%K Sexuality
%K Sexual intercourse
%K Status of children
%K Eschatology
%K Spirits and gods
%K Ethnosociology
%9 bibliographic
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fs05-020
%P xviii, 332 , plates
%[ 2022-07-02