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Author Earthy, E. Dora, author

Title Valenge women : social and economic life of the Valenge Women of Portuguese East Africa / E. Dora Earthy
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series African ethnographic studies of the 20th century ; v. 20
African ethnographic studies of the 20th century ; v. 20.
Contents 1. Origin and History -- 2. Social Organization and Kinship System -- 3. Valenge Women: Their Homesteads -- 4. The Agricultural Year 5. Material Culture 6. Birth Rites 7. Early Education 8. Games 9. String Figures 10. Tatuing, Scarification and Tribal Marks -- 11. Puberty, Initiation -- 12. Marriage, Relation Between the Sexes -- 13. Death -- 14. Dances -- 15. Religion, Magic and Sorcery -- 16. Folklore and Proverbs. -- Conclusion. -- Appendix: The Sibs of Gazaland
Summary When first published in 1933, this monograph shed new light on the life of the Valenge women of Portuguese East Africa. It discusses their social organisations, family relationships, education, tribal customs, and contains detailed information concerning initiation rites, religion, magic and sorcery. The volume collects a large number of native texts, rituals and formulae, thereby converting oral tradition into material of great value not only to students of Africcan ethnography but also to anthropologists more widely
Notes Includes index
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Subject Ethnology -- Mozambique.
Women -- Mozambique
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
Ethnology
Women
Mozambique
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429488344
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