Mukanda Temporal Structure

Name: Mukanda Temporal Structure
Author: Victor Turner, 1920-1983

in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 5, H: Mukanda Material, Synopsis of book on ritual) , 25 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Fieldnote and event notes pieced together to illustrate and represent the full timeline and events within the Mukanda ritual. These notes contain references back to the indexed fieldnotes gathered at the Ndembu Mukanza village field site. Topics include notes on the preparatory phases of the ritual, the procession to the circumcision, the preparation of the circumcision site, event notes about the selection of the circumcision site, and an account from an informant Mukishi.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Field notes
Duration: 0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Victor Turner, 1920-1983
Format: Text
Page Count: 25
Page Range: 1-25
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)