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Title: | Witchcraft and morals: the Nyakyusa |
Author: | Mair, L. |
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. |