TY  - CHAP
AU  - Raum, Otto Friedrich
PY  - 1973
DA  - 1973//
TI  - The social functions of avoidances and taboos among the Zulu
BT  - Monographien zur Völkerkunde
SP  - xiv, 576
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin, New York
KW  - Zulu (African people)
KW  - Zulu
KW  - Vocabulary
KW  - Diet
KW  - Eating
KW  - Personal names
KW  - Classes
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Household
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Chief executive
KW  - Executive household
KW  - Community heads
KW  - Provinces
KW  - Religious offenses
KW  - Death
KW  - Avoidance and taboo
KW  - Puberty and initiation
AB  - This source presents an exhaustive analysis of the sociological function of UKUHLONIPHA (Hl) (avoidance) and UKUZILA (Za) (abstention or taboo) in Zulu social organization and institutional activities.  The framework for the tables appearing in this work were drawn up by the author in 1940 and filled in from the literature on the Zulu as well as fieldwork in Mapumulo District. This information was further verified and supplemented in consultation with approximately 100 students and teachers at the Umpumulo Training College. During the summers of 1952-1953, 1955-1956, and 1956-1957 (a total of nine months in all), the author visited the districts of Eshowe, Mahlabatini, Nongoma, and Nkandla to further supplement his data (p. 1). From Raum's original survey, it was determined that the avoidance and taboo patterns covered a very wide range of  phenomena in those specific situations in which such behavior was obligatory. later fieldwork '…revealed that the whole gamut of Hl and Za observances is never found implemented in any one family, in any particular individual. Each Zulu, and each lineage makes a selection which is determined by historical, cultural and economic circumstances and individual predilections' (p. 1).
SN  - 3110034603
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fx20-015
LA  - English
N1  - von O. F. Raum
ID  - fx20-015
Y1  - 2022-07-03
ER  -