Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life (Classic Reprint Series)

by Victor Turner (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $43.02

  This is a social drama study, which focuses on the village life of the Ndembu of Zambia who were then under British rule. The social constraints, such as the matrilineally-inherited headmanship system, and the releases from these constraints, provoked crises which caused disruption and pain.