Mukanda

Name: Mukanda
Author: Victor Turner, 1920-1983

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Abstract / Summary: Partial working draft of a manuscript titled "Mukanda" and containing the introductory argument and chapter 3. Main argument: "This book is not strictly speaking an analysis of ritual beliefs and practices, but a study in social kinestics." Chapter 3 explores the Aims, Role Structure and Temporal Form of Mukanda, a Ndembu boys' initiation ceremony with the function of removing a boy from the authority of his parents and placing him under the authoirty of a senior male of the tribe through a ritual circumcision.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Essay
Duration: 0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Victor Turner, 1920-1983
Format: Text
Page Count: 28
Page Range: 1-28
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Circumcisions, Coming of age ceremonies, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Mukenda, North-Western Province (Zambia), Mukanda, North-Western Province (Zambia), Lunda
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Mukenda, North-Western Province (Zambia)