Author: Schoffeleers, J. Matthew
Title: River of Blood. The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, c. A.D. 1600
Description: Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiii,325 pp. Textual maps & photos. Minor rubbing, slight binding soil, some page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contents: The Mbona Cult in Shire Valley: The Shire Valley & Its Population; The Ritual Cycle of the Mbona Cult; The Principals & the Medium; The Quest for a Spirit Wife & the Struggle for Mang'anja Political Supremacy, 1859-1983; The Lundu State in the Late 16th & Early 17th Centuries; Oral Traditions & the Retrieval of the Distant Past; Ideological Confrontation in Oral Tradition; Mbona Biographies: The Mbona I Tradition: Ngabu & Chiphwembwe; Chapirira & Kumbiwanyati; M.E. Rambiki; S. Chimbuto; Che Ngwangwa; Che Chapalapala; A Malawian Synthesis: J.E. Chakanza.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Mbona Cult, Malawi, African Religion, Southern Africa, Ethnohistory, Ethnography, Colonial History,