Author: Richards, Audrey; Fontaine, Jean La (Introduction by)
Title: Chisungu. A girl's initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Zambia.
Description: London, New York, Routledge, 1988. Soft Cover, 224 pp.. (Dr. Richards observed the entire chisungu or female initiation rite, an almost continuous series of complex ceremonies lasting for a month. Her detailed description of the elements of the ritual, and het analysis of it in terms of the culture of a matrilineal society, have made this a classic ethnographic and theoretical text. (some pencilmarks in the margin) ISBN: 041503695X

Keywords: puberty ritual, ethnography, Africa, anthropology, rites, ceremonies, matrilineal society, matrelineality, 041503695X


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