essay
Heat, physiology, and cosmogony: rites de passage among the Thonga
Explorations in African systems of thought • Bloomington • Published In 1980 • Pages: 27-43
By: Heusch, Luc de.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses rites de passage of young children in Thonga society. Focusing on the yandla rite, the document offers a privileged reading of the semantic web, spun by both the succession of gestures and the manipulation of objects. It concludes with a theoretical argument proposing that 'the ritual acts, far from abolishing thought, belong to implicit or explicit codes, that action and thought form one and the same system.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Puberty and initiation
- Cultural identity and pride
- Ceremonial during infancy and childhood
- Cosmology
- Theory of disease
- Mythology
- Conception
- Childbirth
- Purification and atonement
- Disasters
- Difficult and unusual births
- Ethnometeorology
- Community structure
- Prayers and sacrifices
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tsonga
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1895-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Thonga, Mozambique and SouthAfrica
- NotesAdditional notes
- Luc de Heusch
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 43)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80007492
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tsonga (African peoples)