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| Title: | The social organization of the Nama, and other essays |
| Author: | Hoernlé, Winifred |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Pages: | 154 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Johannesburg |
| Publisher: | Witwatersrand University Press |
| ISBN: | 0854948678 |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa Namibia |
| Subjects: | Khoikhoi Bantu-speaking peoples Nama |
| Abstract: | Reprint of some of the essays written by Winifred HOERNLE (1885-1960) to commemorate the centenary of her birth. The papers fall into three sections: an overview which examines the state of social anthropology in 1933; five papers dealing with the Nama and certain other Khoikhoi (Hottentots), published between 1913 and 1925; and three papers on the Southern Bantu-speakers, one published in 1925 and the other two in 1937. The Nama papers deal with social organization, rites of transition, a Hottentot rain ceremony, and the social value of water. The papers on the Bantu-speaking peoples of South Africa discuss social organization, the sib and marriage ceremonies, and magic and medicine. |