Shona customs : essays by African writers / edited by Clive and Peggy Kileff.
Material type: TextPublisher: Mambo Press, 1970Description: 104 pages: 23 cmContent type:- text
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DT2908 AFR African culture and heritage in Zimbabwe volume 1 / | DT 2913.N44 NDL The Ndebele nation : | DT2913 SHO Shona customs : essays by African writers / | DT2913 SHO Shona customs : essays by African writers / | DT 2913 SHO Introduction to Shona culture. | DT2913.15 MAT Zimbabwean emigrants : the truth and deliberate misinformation / | DT2972 BEA Zimbabwe before 1900/ |
The essays presented in this book are among the best received in an essay competition on Shona culture and traditions. The information contained in these essays includes such items as the customary marriage negotiations between families, the role and importance of cattle in Shona society, the ceremony whereby a deceased's spirit is brought home to his village and integrated into the ancestral world by his descendants, the ceremony of installing a new chief, the burial of a chief, the provision made for a widow after her husband's death, how the cause of death is ascertained by a diviner, and others
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