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Author Silva, Sónia

Title Along an African border : Angolan refugees and their divination baskets / Sónia Silva
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Contemporary ethnography.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Birth -- 2. Initiation -- 3. Adulthood -- Conclusion. A Way of Living -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary Anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-163) and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Fetishes (Ceremonial objects) -- Zambia -- Chavuma District
Baskets -- Zambia -- Chavuma District -- Religious aspects
Divination -- Zambia -- Chavuma District
Luvale (African people) -- Zambia -- Chavuma District -- Rites and ceremonies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Divination
Fetishes (Ceremonial objects)
Luvale (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Chavuma District (Zambia) -- Social life and customs
Subject Zambia -- Chavuma District
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010028056
ISBN 9780812203738
0812203739
9781283890335
128389033X