Author: Elizabeth Colson
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Life Among the Cattle-owning Plateau Tonga
Author: Elizabeth Colson
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Languages : en
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Life Among the Cattle-owning Plateau Tonga
Author: Elizabeth Colson
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Marriage & the Family Among the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia
Author: Elizabeth Colson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Life Among the Cattle-oening Plateau Tonga
Author: Elizabeth Colson
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
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The Plateau Tonga
Author: Elizabeth Colson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Tonga Religious Life in the Twentieth Century
Author: Elizabeth Colson
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9982240595
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The religious life of the Tonga-speaking peoples of southern Zambia is examined over the last century, in the sense of how they have thought about the nature of their world, the meaning of their own lives, and the sources of good and evil in which their cosmology and society have been transformed. The twelve chapters cover Time, Space and Language; Basic Themes, Tonga Religious Vocabulary and its Referents; the Vocabulary of Shrines and Substance; Homestead and Bush; Ritual Communities and Actors; Rituals of the Life Course; Death and its Rituals; Evil and Witchcraft; and Christianity and Tonga Experience. The author has drawn on dairies by research assistants, and field notes and research of fellow anthropologists, but above all from her own interaction with Tonga people since 1946. The older people gave first hand memories of Ndebele and Lozi raids, David Linvingstone encamped near their villages in 1856 and 1862, the arrival of colonial administrators, traders, missionaries and European and Indian settlers, and in some cases, the end of colonial rule. Their experience and that of their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren provides the basis for understanding Tonga religious experience. Elizabeth Colson is an American anthropologist who is widely published on the Tonga. Her research interests have particularly concentrated on the Gwembe Valley.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9982240595
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The religious life of the Tonga-speaking peoples of southern Zambia is examined over the last century, in the sense of how they have thought about the nature of their world, the meaning of their own lives, and the sources of good and evil in which their cosmology and society have been transformed. The twelve chapters cover Time, Space and Language; Basic Themes, Tonga Religious Vocabulary and its Referents; the Vocabulary of Shrines and Substance; Homestead and Bush; Ritual Communities and Actors; Rituals of the Life Course; Death and its Rituals; Evil and Witchcraft; and Christianity and Tonga Experience. The author has drawn on dairies by research assistants, and field notes and research of fellow anthropologists, but above all from her own interaction with Tonga people since 1946. The older people gave first hand memories of Ndebele and Lozi raids, David Linvingstone encamped near their villages in 1856 and 1862, the arrival of colonial administrators, traders, missionaries and European and Indian settlers, and in some cases, the end of colonial rule. Their experience and that of their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren provides the basis for understanding Tonga religious experience. Elizabeth Colson is an American anthropologist who is widely published on the Tonga. Her research interests have particularly concentrated on the Gwembe Valley.
Spirits and Letters
Author: Thomas G. Kirsch
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857451421
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise 'the Spirit' and 'the Letter' as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions of the relationship between 'charisma' and 'institution' by analysing reading and writing practices in contemporary Christianity. Taking up the continuing anthropological interest in Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity, and representing the first book-length treatment of literacy practices among African Christians, this volume explores how church leaders in Zambia refer to the Bible and other religious literature, and how they organise a church bureaucracy in the Pentecostal-charismatic mode. Thus, by examining social processes and conflicts that revolve around the conjunction of Pentecostal-charismatic and literacy practices in Africa, Spirits and Letters reconsiders influential conceptual dichotomies in the social sciences and the humanities and is therefore of interest not only to anthropologists but also to scholars working in the fields of African studies, religious studies, and the sociology of religion.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857451421
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise 'the Spirit' and 'the Letter' as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions of the relationship between 'charisma' and 'institution' by analysing reading and writing practices in contemporary Christianity. Taking up the continuing anthropological interest in Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity, and representing the first book-length treatment of literacy practices among African Christians, this volume explores how church leaders in Zambia refer to the Bible and other religious literature, and how they organise a church bureaucracy in the Pentecostal-charismatic mode. Thus, by examining social processes and conflicts that revolve around the conjunction of Pentecostal-charismatic and literacy practices in Africa, Spirits and Letters reconsiders influential conceptual dichotomies in the social sciences and the humanities and is therefore of interest not only to anthropologists but also to scholars working in the fields of African studies, religious studies, and the sociology of religion.
Tonga Timeline
Author: Cliggett, Lisa
Publisher: The Lembani Trust
ISBN: 9982997270
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A multitude of scholars have visited Tonga communities. They have come from different countries, worked at different times, had different disciplinary interests and theoretical agenda and published in different places. Many of these scholars have been the products of Zambian and Zimbabwean universities. The research presented in this volume gives some idea of the rich knowledge now available on the Tonga - a people remarkable for their egalitarian ethos, practice of participatory democracy and willingness to experiment with new possibilities.
Publisher: The Lembani Trust
ISBN: 9982997270
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A multitude of scholars have visited Tonga communities. They have come from different countries, worked at different times, had different disciplinary interests and theoretical agenda and published in different places. Many of these scholars have been the products of Zambian and Zimbabwean universities. The research presented in this volume gives some idea of the rich knowledge now available on the Tonga - a people remarkable for their egalitarian ethos, practice of participatory democracy and willingness to experiment with new possibilities.
The Occasional Papers of the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, Nos. 1-16, in One Volume
Author: Rhodes-Livingstone Museum
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719012730
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719012730
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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The Material Culture of the Peoples of the Gwembe Valley
Author: Barrie Reynolds
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719012419
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719012419
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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