Researched under difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances during the Banda era this book is a unique contribution to anthropological research in Malawi Orginally published in 1976 this new edition has been throughly reworked and edited at a time when many of the domains described by Van Breugel were in a process of decline transformation or even disappearance The book offers precious descriptions of rain rituals at Bunda and Tsang oma explications of witchcraft phenomena and of the mdulu complex a convincing theory of the religious significance of Nyau and extensive deliberations of concepts of God and ancestors In addition the book serves as a comprehensive overview on all the domains of Chewa Traditional Religion

Chewa Traditional Religion (Coleccion Comuna)

J.W.M. van Breugel

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Chewa Traditional Religion (Coleccion Comuna)