TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kileff,Clive
AU  - Kileff,Peggy
TI  - Shona customs: essays by African writers 
SN  - 0869225413
AV  - DT2913 SHO 
PY  - 1970///
PB  - Mambo Press
KW  - Shona (African people)
N2  - 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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