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Tonga religious life in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 128087564X 9982240587 9786613716958 9982240579 9982240595 9789982240598 9789982240574 9982240455 9789982240451 9982241370 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lusaka, Zambia Bookworld Publishers

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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


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ISBN: 9789982240451 9982240455 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lusaka Bookworld Publishers

The social consequences of resettlement : the impact of the Kariba resettlement upon the Gwembe Tonga.
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ISBN: 0719010322 0719010330 Year: 1971 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press


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Tonga timeline
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ISBN: 9982680056 9789982680059 9982997270 9789982997270 9789982997270 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lusaka, Zambia

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A multitude of scholars have visited Tonga communities. They have come from different countries, worked at different times, had different disciplinary interests and theoretical agenda and published in different places. Many of these scholars have been the products of Zambian and Zimbabwean universities. The research presented in this volume gives some idea of the rich knowledge now available on the Tonga - a people remarkable for their egalitarian ethos, practice of participatory democracy and willingness to experiment with new possibilities.


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Oral literature and moral education among the lakeside Tonga of Northern Malawi : a study of Tonga culture in Northern Malawi
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ISBN: 9990804044 9789990804041 9789990802443 Year: 2014 Publisher: Mzuzu, [Malawi] : Mzuni Press,

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This is a book about the Tonga of Northern Malawi, sometimes called the Lakeshore Tonga to distinguish them from other ethnic groups with the same name further west in Central Africa. The Lakeshore Tonga were the first ethnic group to identify themselves with the Christian faith. The purpose of the research was to investigate the use of Tonga myths, folktales, proverbs and rituals for their role in Moral Education and assess and evaluate their contribution towards value formation for the youth. Each chapter in the book aims to discuss some ideas in the anthropology of religion and to illustrate them with specific case studies formed primarily through conversation with friends, both young and old, over some years.

Strategies and norms in a changing matrilineal society : descent, succession, and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia
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ISBN: 0521303001 0521024323 0511521111 0511826672 9780521303002 Year: 1986 Volume: 58 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The theme of this book is the analysis of the changes that have occurred in the kinship patterns of the Toka of South Zambia as a result of a shift in their form of production from hoe agriculture to ox-drawn ploughing. Dr Holy uses the rich, detailed ethnography that he provides about these changes to confront several theoretical issues of current anthropological interest, as well as to examine the basic methodological problems of anthropological enquiry. Emphasizing the distinction between the conceptual and cognitive world of the actors, and the transactions and events in which they engage, he argues that anthropological explanation has to account not only for structure, but also for the purposeful interaction between actors that generates that structure.

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