Title Sorcery in its social setting : a study of the Northern Rhodesian Cewa / M. G. Marwick

Published Manchester [Eng.] ; Manchester University Press, [publisher not identified], [1965] Manchester U.P., 1965

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W'PONDS	306.409689 Mar/Sii		AVAILABLE

Description 339 pages : illustrations, maps, plates, folded genealogical table ; 23 cm Contents Part I: Introductory--1. The sociology of sorcery--2. Introducing the Ceŵa--3. The idiom of Ceŵa belief--Part II: The contexts of Ceŵa sorcery--4. The matrilineage from within--5. External relations of the matrilineage--6. The position of the chief--7. Believed attacks and accusations between unrelated persons--8. Sorcery as a moral force--9. Sorcery and social change--10. Biographical: the life and death of headman Gombe--11. Recurring themes in all contexts Bibliography Bibliography: pages 307-325 Subject Anthropology -- Rhodesia Chewa (African people) Ethnopsychology -- Rhodesia Magic -- Zambia. Occultism -- Rhodesia Social conflict -- Zambia. Sociology -- Rhodesia Witchcraft -- Africa. Witchcraft -- Rhodesia Witchcraft -- Zambia. ISBN 0719002575

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