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Title:Beasts to beer pots: migrant labour and ritual change in Willowvale district, Transkei
Author:MacAllister, P.A.ISNI
Year:1985
Periodical:African Studies
Volume:44
Issue:2
Pages:121-135
Language:English
Geographic terms:Transkei
South Africa
Subjects:Xhosa
labour migration
customs
Urbanization and Migration
Labor and Employment
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00020188508707639
Abstract:This paper is concerned with the persistence and radical modification of a Gcaleka ritual called umhlinzeko or umsindleko, performed in celebration of the return of a migrant worker to his rural home. The earlier form of the ritual (umhlinzeko) is described and this is followed by an outline of the present-day form (umsindleko). The bulk of the paper is taken up with an attempt to explain why the one form gave way to the other. In this respect the analysis concentrates on the relationship between the two forms and their socio-economic contexts, and relates the changes in the form and meaning of the ritual to the changing economic and political circumstances affecting the Gcaleka and other Xhosa-speakers. Notes, ref.
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