Book
Communal rituals of the Nyakyusa
Published for the International Institute by the Oxford University Press • London, New York, Toronto • Published In 1959 • Pages:
By: Wilson, Monica Hunter.
Abstract
This volume is a study of the relationship of religion to Nyakyusa social structure. The author examines the origin myths (the charter), political and age-grade ceremonies, ancestral sacrifices and the varying importance of ancestral shrines, political power and status based on religion, sorcery, 'medicines,' oracles and cosmology. In the final section she discusses the influence of the Christian missionaries and the native African churches on Nyakyusa society.
- Subjects
- Cultural identity and pride
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Chief executive
- Ethnic stratification
- Traditional history
- Tillage
- Age stratification
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Organized ceremonial
- Cult of the dead
- Real property
- Majority
- Priesthood
- Districts
- Mythology
- Cosmology
- Gender status
- Revelation and divination
- Theory of disease
- Normal garb
- Religious denominations
- Missions
- Sex and marital offenses
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Sociocultural trends
- culture
- Nyakyusa and Ngonde
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Robert J. Theodoratus ; 1962 ; Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field Date
- 1934-1955
- Coverage Date
- 1934-1959
- Coverage Place
- Nyakyusa, Tanzania and Malawi
- Notes
- Monica Wilson
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 59000799
- LCSH
- Nyakyusa (African people)