Book
Symbols of life: an analysis of the consciousness of the Karanga
Mambo Press • (3) • Published In 1982 • Pages: xviii, 332 , plates
By: Aschwanden, Herbert, Cooper, Ursula.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Animism
- Ethnopsychology
- Ethnophysics
- Life and death
- Puberty and initiation
- Pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Arranging a marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Sexuality
- Sexual intercourse
- Status of children
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shona
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Missionary Nurse
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1965-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zaka, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Herbert Aschwanden in collaboration with the Karanga Nurses of the Musiso Hospital at Zaka, Zimbabwe ; English translation by Ursula Cooper
- Translation of: Symbole des Lebens. Continued by: Symbols of death. 1987
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83108641
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Karanga (African people)