Mukanda
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 5, F: Mukanda) , 28 page(s)
Details
- 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
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2016 by Edith Turner
- 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)