Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia

ISBN-13: 9780367540944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 210 str.

Richards Audrey; Jessica Johnson

Opis

Chisungu is widely hailed as a classic of anthropology and African and gender studies. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Jessica Johnson and an introduction by Jean La Fontaine.

Spis treści

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Jessica Johnson  Introduction Jean La Fontaine  Part 1: The Cultural Setting  1. Environment and Activities  2. Ideology and Dogma  3. Social Structure  4. The Marriage Contract  5. Accepted Sex Roles  Part 2: The Ceremony  6. The Ritual Type  7. The Actors in the Ceremony  8. The Character of the Rite  9. The Ceremony  10. Calendar of Events at Chisungu Performed at Chinsali  Part 3: The Interpretation of the Ceremony  11. Methods of Interpretation  12. Expressed Purposes of the Chisungu  13. Deduced Attitudes  14. The Chisingu in Relation to Tribal Dogma and Values  15. Unconscious Tensions and Conflicts  16. Pragmatic Effects.  Appendix A: The Distribution of Chisungu Ceremonies in Central Africa  Appendix B: Songs Sung During the Ceremony  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Audrey Richards (1899-1984) was one of the outstanding ethnographers of her generation. She completed her PhD at the London School of Economics in 1931, under the supervision of Bronisław Malinowski. She was amongst the first anthropologists to carry out fieldwork in Africa and taught at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1937 to 1940. On her return to England she taught at the London School of Economics and was a key member of the Colonial Social Science Research Council, leading to her becoming director of the newly established East Africa Institute at Makerere University, Uganda in 1950. She returned to England again in 1956 as a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, where she later served as vice-principal. She was awarded a CBE in 1955 and became the first woman president of the Royal Anthropological Institute.