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Chisungu: Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia

Hardcover • 1982

Chisungu: Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia

By Audrey Bronstein

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While there have been a number of descriptions and interpretations of boys' initiation rituals, Audrey Richards's classic study of initiation rites among the Bemba remains one of the few studies to deal in detail with the initiation of girls into adult life.<br>Dr Richards observed the entire chisungu or female initiation rite, an almost continuous series of complex ceremonies lasting for a month. Her detailed description of the elements of the ritual, and her analysis of it in terms of the cult...Show more

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9780415036955

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1982

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Chisungu: Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia

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