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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Nubians
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Northern Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field Date
- 1962-1963
- Coverage Date
- 1962-1963
- Coverage Place
- northern Aswan Governate, Egypt
- Notes
- Charles Callender and Fadwa El Guindi
- bibliographical references (p. 87)
- LCCN
- 72148729
- LCSH
- Kenuz (African people)--Rites and ceremonies