The Lele of the Kasai
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The Lele of the Kasai
(Collected works / Mary Douglas, v. 1)
Routledge, 2003
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  Iwate
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Note
Reprint. Originally published by International African Institute, 1963
Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-282) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists. The intellectural tools and examples she gained from Africanist ethnography continue to serve her explorations of European and American society.
Table of Contents
- 1: The Lele on the Map
- 2: The Productive Side of the Economy
- 3: Distribution of Wealth
- 4: The Village: Offices and Age-Sets
- 5: Clans
- 6: Marriage
- 7: Marriage
- 8: Blood Debts
- 9: The Village
- 10: The Role of the Aristocratic Clan in Relations Between Villages
- 11: Religious Sanctions on Village Unity and the Organization of Village Cults
- 12: Sorcery
- 13: Control of Sorcery
- 14: European Impact on Lele Society
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