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Author Colson, Elizabeth, 1917-2016

Title Tonga religious life in the twentieth century / Elizabeth Colson
Published Lusaka, Zambia : Bookworld Publishers, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary The religious life of the Tonga-speaking peoples of southern Zambia is examined over the last century, in the sense of how they have thought about the nature of their world, the meaning of their own lives, and the sources of good and evil in which their cosmology and society have been transformed. The twelve chapters cover Time, Space and Language; Basic Themes, Tonga Religious Vocabulary and its Referents; the Vocabulary of Shrines and Substance; Homestead and Bush; Ritual Communities and Actors; Rituals of the Life Course; Death and its Rituals; Evil and Witchcraft; and Christianity and Tong
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index
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Subject Tonga (Zambezi people) -- Religion
Tonga (Zambezi people) -- Social life and customs
Ethnology -- Zambia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnology
Tonga (Zambezi people) -- Social life and customs
Ritual
Religion
Zambia
Tsonga.
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