TY  - JOUR
AU  - Krige, Eileen Jensen
PY  - 1968
DA  - 1968//
TI  - Girls' puberty songs and their relation to fertility, health, morality, and religion among the Zulus
JO  - Africa
SP  - 173
EP  - 198
VL  - Vol. 38
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - London
KW  - Zulu (African people)
KW  - Zulu
KW  - Puberty and initiation
KW  - Majority
KW  - Music
KW  - Literary texts
KW  - Organized ceremonial
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - Spirits and gods
KW  - Purification and atonement
AB  - This source is concerned with a discussion and analysis of songs used in girls' puberty and maturity ceremonies as well as on other occasions, particularly during ceremonies to the deity Inkosazana. Brief descriptions of maturity ceremonies and ceremonies to Inkosazana are given and the author provides the texts to 17 songs used in these ceremonies. The roles on unmarried girls as ceremonial actors and possible sources of evil befalling the community are featured in Krige's analysis. She concludes that the study of song content is important and that such a study '… has brought to light a very clear connection between girls' puberty rites and certain other rites associated with fertility, rain, and the prevention of seasonal disease in man and the crops' (p. 183). Krige also includes a brief critique of Gluckman's analysis of Zulu ritual.
SN  - 0001-9720
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=fx20-025
LA  - English
N1  - Eileen Jensen Krige
ID  - fx20-025
Y1  - 2022-06-28
ER  -