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Title:Kgatla notions of ritual impurity
Author:Schapera, I.ISNI
Year:1979
Periodical:African Studies
Volume:38
Issue:1
Pages:3-15
Language:English
Geographic term:Botswana
Subjects:Kgatla
African religions
religious rituals
Religion and Witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00020187908707528
Abstract:This paper as originally drafted (c. 1965), was intended to form part of a revised edition of the author's book 'Married Life in an African Tribe' (first published in 1940). For various reasons that revision was not completed. However, former colleagues who read some of the chapters have suggested that, owing to present-day interest in problems of ritual pollution, the relevant data about the Kgatla should now be made more widely available, if only for comparitive purposes. Professor Adam Kuper helped to shape the resulting paper into a self-sufficient whole. The information on which it is based was collected during field-work trips in 1929-35 to the Kgatla (BaKgatla-bagaKgafela) of Botswana. Ref.
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