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Title:Witchcraft and morals: the Nyakyusa
Author:Mair, L.ISNI
Book title:African societies
Year:1974
Pages:232-244
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:Nyakyusa
witchcraft
Abstract:Based on: 'Good company' (1959), and 'Communal rituals of the Nyakyusa', G. Wilson, in: Africa (1936); 'The princes of Nyakyusa', S. Charsley (1969). This chapter discusses the political organization of the Nyakyusa, their ideas concerning witchcraft and sorcery and the relationship between witchcraft ideas and society.