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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu

By: Audrey Isabel Richards

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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu

By: Audrey Isabel Richards

Preface to the 2004 ed. by Henrietta Moore.

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Psychology Press

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0415320119

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9780415320115

Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia

An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe

By: Audrey Isabel Richards

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Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia

An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe

By: Audrey Isabel Richards

This reprint of a study by Dr. Audrey Richards (1899-1984) describes the living conditions of the Bemba of North-Eastern Rhodesia, with special reference to the effects of migrant labour on the social and economic life of a mainly agricultural society. Although primarily concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of food, and with conditions of labour and standards of living, the book gives a vivid picture of the social structure of the Bemba - their political organisation and the functions of the chief, systems of land-tenure, kinship groupings, and the whole complex of economic, social, and magico-religious factors which arise in any community. The book has been widely recognised as an authoritative study particularly among economists and anthropologists.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3894738766

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Chisungu

A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia

By: Audrey Richards

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Chisungu

A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia

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Audrey Richards (1899-1984) was a leading British anthropologist of the twentieth century and the first woman president of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Based on fieldwork conducted at a time when the discipline was dominated by male anthropologists, Chisungu: A Girl’s Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia is widely hailed as a classic of anthropology and African and gender studies. Underpinned by painstaking research carried out by Richards among the Bemba people in northern Zambia in the 1930s, Chisungu focuses on the initiation ceremonies for young Bemba girls. Pioneering the study of women’s rituals and challenging the prevailing theory that rites of passage served merely to transfer individuals from one status to another, Richards writes about the incredibly rich and diverse aspects of ritual that characterised Chisungu: its concern with matriliny; deference to elders; sex and reproduction; the birth of children; ideas about the continuity between past, present and future; and the centrality of emotional conflict. On a deeper level, Chisungu is a crucial work for the role it accords to the meaning of symbolism in explaining the structure of society, paving the way for much subsequent understanding of the role of symbolic meaning and kinship. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Jessica Johnson and an introduction by Jean La Fontaine.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000358011

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9781000358018

Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia

An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe

By: Audrey Isabel Richards

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An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe

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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu

By: Audrey Richards

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A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu

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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold statement 'nutrition as a biological process is more fundamental than sex'. When it was first published in 1932, with a preface by Malinowski, it laid the groundwork for sociological theory of nutrition. Richards was also among the first anthropologists to establish women's lives and the social sphere as legitimate subjects for anthropological study.

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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu

By: Audrey Isabel Richards

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A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu

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Preface to the 2004 ed. by Henrietta Moore.

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Chisungu

A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia

By: Audrey Isabel Richards

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A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia

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While there have been a number of descriptions and interpretations of boys' initiation rituals, Audrey Richards's classic study of initiation rites among the Bemba remains one of the few studies to deal in detail with the initiation of girls into adult life. Dr Richards observed the entire chisungu or female initiation rite, an almost continuous series of complex ceremonies lasting for a month. Her detailed description of the elements of the ritual, and her analysis of it in terms of the culture of matrilineal society, have made this a classic ethnographic and theoretical text. Celebrating the attainment of sexual and social maturity, the puberty rituals reflect tribal attitudes to sex, fertility, marriage, and the rearing of children. We see how women's ceremonies portray and try to enforce the social obligations of marriage and the setting up of the kinship group, and the conflicts of interest that are involved.

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041503695X

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Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

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Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia

Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia

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Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia

Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

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