Richards, Audrey; Fontaine, Jean La (Introduction by)
Chisungu. A girl's initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Zambia.
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
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Keywords: puberty ritual, ethnography, Africa, anthropology, rites, ceremonies, matrilineal society, matrelineality, 041503695X