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The Papers of Victor Witter Turner (1163)
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Box 1: Papers of Victor Witter Turner. Field notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia (87)
- p. 1-6: Mwinilunga District Dates, Lunda and Ndembo: History and Tradition of Origin (2)
- p. 7-16: Njila Ya Kuya Ku Luwunda. Visits of Ndembu and Lunda Chiefs to greet the new Mwantiyanvwa. Some Notes on Procedure When Lunda Chiefs Visit Mwantiyanvwa (1)
- p. 18-29: Installation to Chieftainship and Headmanship among the Lunda and Ndembo; Insignin of Lunda Chiefs; The Chief's Substitute; Wusensi between Lunda Chiefs; The Killing of the King; Chief' Fear of Assassination (2)
- p. 30-47: List of Mwantiyanvwa Chiefs (p. 30-33 missing) (4)
- p. 48-58: Chronology of Lunda Chiefs (1)
- p. 59-80: The Coming of Chibinda and the Wanderjahre of the Lunda Chiefs (6)
- p. 81-132: Sakayoli's Visit to Mwinilunga District (10)
- p. 136-143: The Ikelenge Chieftainship (1)
- p. 144-147: Notes on Mukang'ala Chieftainship (1)
- p. 148-152: List of Chiefs Ntambo Lukonkesha (2)
- p. 156-165: Kakoma Chieftainship: succession, insignia, traditions, royal villages, genealogy (1)
- p. 166-168: Chiefs Kanyam and Sailunga (1)
- p. 169-173: The Mweni Kasanga Chieftainship, succession and genealogy (1)
- p. 176-178: The Ntete Chieftainship (1)
- p. 179-185: The Musokantanda chieftainship, succession and genealogy (2)
- p.186-190: The Chinyama Chieftainship (Balovale) (1)
- p. 191-211: Akishi, Makishi, Mahamba, and Ihamba, etc.: spiritual afflictions and rituals (5)
- p. 212-235: Lunda medicines (7)
- p. 236-256: Lunda rituals (Swanandong'a Village) (4)
- p. 257-280: Ancestor Worship Before Nkang'a and Nukanda (5)
- p. 281 - 323: The Nkanga (girl's puberty ceremony) (8)
- p. 324-347: Divination, Guilt and Purification (6)
- p. 348-350: Tuponya (1)
- p. 351-382: How to Become a Chimbuki (5)
- p. 383-431: Ihamba (5)
- p. 432-459: Kanenga Ceremony (4)
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Box 2: Papers of Victor Witter Turner Field Notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia 1950 -1952 (continued) (95)
- p. 460-464: Chihamba Ceremony (exorcism): taboos, medicines (1)
- p. 465-467: Kanyong'u ceremony: Divination, curing (1)
- p. 468-478: Tukuka Exorcism Ceremony: given to sick when other cures fail, possession, taboos (2)
- p. 483-509: Twin Ceremony (Bwangu): songs (4)
- p. 510-530: Ikela Ceremony at Swanakatompa: to drive away a spirt which is causing a woman to have a series of abortions, Muknada songs (3)
- p. 535-563: Funeral Ceremony of a Headman: mourning, burial, Mudileji - end of the mourning ceremony (4)
- p. 566-567a: Results of my Sociological Census (1)
- p. 568-594: Folk Tales: The Girl and the Egg (8)
- p. 595-638: Dietary of Lunda and Ndembo [secondary sources] (9)
- p. 639-665: Daily Work (6)
- p. 666-670: Lunda Plants (3)
- p. 671-673: House Building: Types built, division of labor, impact of new brick houses on villages (1)
- p. 674-678: The Blacksmith's Craft: Guilds, equipment (1)
- p. 679-680: Pot Making (1)
- p. 681-685: Baskets & Mats: Types of baskets - manufacture and use, types of mats - manufacture and use (1)
- p. 686-691: Lunda Measurements: Size, distance, breadth, time, day, seasons, year, night (1)
- p. 692-720: Notes on Lunda Sorcery: Kin relations associated with accusations (8)
- p. 721-737: Sorcery Suspicions with Regard to Chief Nyakaseya's Illness (3)
- p. 742-750: Village Structure: slaves (3)
- p. 751-774: The Status of Affines in Villages (5)
- p. 775-782: Clanship [based on secondary sources]: Totems, Exogamy (2)
- p. 783-796: Ivumu Group (residential group) (3)
- p. 797-802: Marriage Payment (Nsewu) (1)
- p. 803-816: A Lunda Wooing: Betrothal (3)
- p. 853-867: Musona's Divorce Case (4)
- p. 868-884: (2 photocopies) (3)
- p. 886-922: (2 photocopies) Some Collected Notes on Marriage and the Family: Phases of Marriage, Things Exchanged, Pregnancy and Lactation, Beliefs and Taboos Associated With Pregnancy, Midwifery, Medicines... (1)
- p. 961-967: Notes on Pre-European Court Procedure, Divination: Oaths (1)
- p. 966-978: Inheritance of Property - Surveys (10)
- p. 1025-1039: History of the Balovale Lunda [Secondary Sources] (1)
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Box 3: Papers of Victor Witter Turner Field Notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, Second Trip, April 1953 - May 1954 (61)
- [Folder None] (1)
- p. 1000a-1002: Types of land resources (1)
- p. 1003-1005: Hunting techniques (written in native text), minimal translation (1)
- p. 1006-1024: Lunda on the copperbelt: Bemba "supremacy" & European influence, village groupings, political vs. cultural unity (5)
- p. 1040-1049: Mwinilunga native authority: minutes of a meeting, African provincal council, courtcase, witchcraft (1)
- p. 1050-1054: Notes on Lunda land tenure: gardens, bush, ownership of resources, use rights: rights of chief, headman (1)
- p. 1055-1057: Culture contact and conflict: stress resulting from European rule, marriage, childhood, schools, theft, tensions with European traders (1)
- p. 1058-1059: Conversation with headman Nswanakudya on the chieftainship and on village headmen: traditional political units, European influence on politics (1)
- p. 1060-1076: Succession ceremony of a chief: slavery [much Ndembu text], gifts - indigenous text (1)
- p. 1077-1081: Succession in the Kanongeshaship: comparison of different versions (1)
- p. 1082-1088: Notes on position of headman in villages: insignia, tribute, food consumption units, sorcery (2)
- p. 1089-1093: The Kawiko villages: history, kinship, fission, local political units, relationship between villages (1)
- p. 1094-1097: Former sites of Nyishi-Kajima: village formation, labor migrants (1)
- p. 1098-1106: History of Chibwakata village: comments on headman: slavery, funerals, education, chiefs, fission (2)
- p.1107-1119: Incest between classificatory kin as an index of fission: court cases, marriage, in-law avoidance (1)
- p.1120-1175: Observations of village activities among women in Kajima: food processing, village grouping, childhood, subsistence, marriage, spirits, siblings, polygamy, generations, kinship, exchange, joking relationship.. (9)
- p. 1176-1186a: Note on kinship terminology: generations (5)
- p.1187-1196a: Marriage payments: lineages, cross-cousin marriage (2)
- p.1197-1202: Notes on marriage and kinship: affines, lineages & payments, history,sorcery, funerals, supernatural, slavery, dreams, hunting, death, ill health,spirits (2)
- p. 1203-1224: Questions on marriage and children: marriage payments, premarital sex,cross-cousins, in-laws, greetings, parenthood, adultery, causes of divorce,"illegitimate" children, alternate generation relations, 'taboos . . . (2)
- p. 1225-1228: Notes on a conversation between Manyosa and Nyamuvwila: wage labour,parent-child relations (1)
- p. 1230-1234: The death of a Capitao - case study: wage labour, matrikin, cross-cousins,education, adultery, sorcery, hunting, reciprocity and gifts, funeral, sorcery (1)
- p. 1235-1238: Manyosa's dream: medicine, illness, parent-child relation, alternategeneration, school (2)
- p. 1241-1252: Types of spiritual beings: masalu and mwevulu and mukishi - mostlyindigenous text, hunting I dreams, ikishi, birth marks (2)
- p. 1253-1293: Lunda medicine and surgery: questionnaire, list of diseases and symptoms,treatment of diseases, mukanda, wubwang'u, spirit, prayer, curers, folktale,witchcraft, nkanga, sun (5)
- p. 1294-1304: Conversation with Muchona: taboos - for husband of expectant woman,wubwang'u, kaneng'a - indigenous text, nkula - indigenous text, ihamba -indigenous text, mukanda - indigenous text (3)
- p. 1393-1396+ 1401:Mukanda ceremony at Nyaluhana village: village affiliations, genealogy ofNyaluhana village, plan of Nyaluhana village (diagram), preliminaryinvestigation: distrust of Europeans, culture change (1)
- pg. 1402 - 1435: Mukanda at Nyaluhana: Network of affinal connections between villages, history of Nyaluhana village: Fission, neighboring tribes, ritual (5)
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Box 4: Papers of Victor Witter Turner Field Notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, Second Trip, April 1953 - May 1954 (82)
- p. 1176-1186a: Note on kinship terminology: generations (2)
- p. 1393-1396+ 1401:Mukanda ceremony at Nyaluhana village: village affiliations, genealogy ofNyaluhana village, plan of Nyaluhana village (diagram), preliminaryinvestigation: distrust of Europeans, culture change (3)
- p. 1436-1447 Mukanda at Nyaluhana: informants text, some remarks on the function of Mukanda, Mukanda taboos, terms used at Mukanda (1)
- p. 1448-1457: Mukanda: indigenous texts, translation, description of rites, mfunda, folktale, history, medicines, spirits, father-son relation, marital relations, blood friendship ... (1)
- p. 1458-1495: Discussion between Mrs. Turner and Manyosa on Nkang'a ceremony, marital relations and exchanges, female puberty rites, sorcery, dance, mother-daughter relations ... (5)
- p. 1496-1521: Kayong'u and divination: Ihamba, deathm Mukanda, witchcraft, spirit familiars, prayer, history, indigenous text: translation, vocabulary, chihamba (1)
- p. 1522-1564: (Also, several pages of unnumbered handwritten notes): Wubinda: hunting, prayer, spirits, dreams, nkanga, hunter's funeral (1)
- p. 1565-1570: Letter to Max Gluckman. wubinda, meaning of black earth in nkang'a, menstruation, Ihamba at Kajima, divination, Ihamba at Nswanamatung'a: indigenous text, divination... (4)
- p. 1571-1583: Kaneng'a: divination, witchcraft, nkang'a nkula curing, indigenous texts - translation, mukanda, nkanga, funeral, chihamba, childbirth, madness among labor migrants ... (2)
- p. 1584-1657: Chihamba ritual: sickness & curing, divination, medicine, prayer, spirits, songs, nkanga, indigenous texts, hunters, generations (5)
- p. 1658-1683: questions on Kayong'u ceremony and basket divination (1)
- p. 1684-1696: Wubwang'u ceremony: twins, difficult childbirth, spirits, indigenous text, songs, medicine, fertility magic, parenthood, prayer, barrenness, spirits, ihamba, taboos, translations… (2)
- p. 1720-1757a: Mung'ong'i ritual (6)
- p. 1758-1763a: Name inheriting ceremony at Kajima: divination, spirit, lineage, prayer (2)
- p. 1763-1766: Birth at Muchona farm, medicine, birth at Kamawu (1)
- p. 1767-1775: Witchcraft cases: hunting I bush, illness, slavery, life history - chief (2)
- p. 1785-1795: A case of theft in Kashinakaji village (3)
- p. 1796-1814: Indigenous text - translation - The case of the Dog, hunting, dispute (5)
- p. 1815-1818: The case of Davidson and Kinisi: wife abuse, divorce, marriage payments, polygyny, adultery, local political units (1)
- p. 1819-1825: Indigenous narrative on headmen (3)
- p. 1826-1830: a slander case - indigenous text (1)
- p. 1831-1862: indigenous text - translation: The grasshopper sang and it drove away the people: folktale, divination, gardening (9)
- p. 1863-1874a: story with a moral - indigenous text, translation: "The boy that was killed by Chishimukulu" (3)
- p. 1885-1897: folktale - indigenous text, translation "The hunter who danced to the song of the buzzing fly" (4)
- p. 1898-1912b: illustrated proverb - indigenous text, translation (4)
- p. 1915-1976: Vocabulary, grammatical notes, notes on words (7)
- p. 1977-1983: Questions for Chamundena, on carving, answers (2)
- Index (1)
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Box 5 (63)
- A: Mukanda Full Material (3)
- B: Studies in African Ritual (5)
- C: Miscellaneous Papers on Village Structure (6)
- D: Labour Migration (2)
- E (1)
- F: Mukanda (2)
- G: Mukanda (1)
- H: Mukanda Material, Synopsis of book on ritual (7)
- I (9)
- J (6)
- K (1)
- L: Social Anthropology and Sociology I (14)
- 1. 1 - 91 (1)
- 2. Note Book Pages 92 - 142: Chief's Genealogies (1)
- Import/Export Info, Secondary Sources (1)
- Notes on Peace Corps. International Development Agencies. Notes on I & L Short "How Did Religion Begin". Bibliographical References. (1)
- Some Indexing of Field Notes. Genealogies (1)
- Village Census Material, Genealogies (1)
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Box 6 (13)
- A. (1) Africa: Geographical Setting; (2) Azande (i) Witchcraft; (3) Anuak (1)
- A. (1) Africa: Geographical Setting (1)
- N/O. (1) Nyakyusa People (Tanganyika); (2) Nupe; (3) Nuer; (4) Nyoro; (5) Nyasa; (6) Ngoni (1)
- P. (1): Political Institutions; Q. (1) Examination Questions on African Ethnography (1)
- R. (1): Reading List (1)
- T. (1) Tonga (1)
- [Folder 6] (2)
- Nuer Ritual and Social Structure (5)
- Box 7, Photography, Book 1 (20)
- Box 8, Photography, Book 2 (384)
- Box 9, Photography, Book 3 (358)
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Box 1: Papers of Victor Witter Turner. Field notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia (87)