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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

Ethnology --- Tonga (Zambezi people) --- Gwembe (African people) --- Plateau Tonga (African people) --- Toka (African people) --- Tonga (Zambesi people) --- Tonga (Zambian people) --- Tonka (African people) --- Valley Tonga (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Social life and customs. --- Religion.

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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.

Moral education --- Tonga (Zambezi people) --- Gwembe (African people) --- Plateau Tonga (African people) --- Toka (African people) --- Tonga (Zambesi people) --- Tonga (Zambian people) --- Tonka (African people) --- Valley Tonga (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Character education --- Ethical education --- Child rearing --- Education --- Ethics --- Religious education --- Folklore.