Book
Life-crisis rituals among the Kenuz
Press of Case Western Reserve University • (3) • Published In 1971 • Pages: viii, 87
By: Callender, Charles, El Guindi, Fadwa.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document provides descriptions of major life-crisis rituals among the Kenuz, held by families, lineage groups and village communities to mark events such as birth, circumcision, marriage, the departure of migrant laborers, and death. The authors focus on the meanings and roles associated with each event.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Body alterations
- Gift giving
- Visiting and hospitality
- Nuptials
- Family relationships
- Theory of disease
- Sorcery
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Avoidance and taboo
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Magic
- Organized ceremonial
- Ethnopsychology
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nubians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1962-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Aswan Governate, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles Callender and Fadwa El Guindi
- bibliographical references (p. 87)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72148729
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kenuz (African people)--Rites and ceremonies