1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387008403316

Autore

Guidott Thomas <fl. 1698.>

Titolo

A century of observations: containing further discoveries of the nature of the hot waters at Bathe [[electronic resource] ] : with the contents, property, and distinction of each bath, in particular. BY T. G. M.B

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for Henry Brome, MDCLXXVI. [i.e. 1686]

Descrizione fisica

[18], 200 p. : ill. (woodcuts)

Soggetti

Mineral waters - England - Bath

Health resorts - England

Physicians - England - Bath (Avon)

Bath (England) Description and travel Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

T.G. = Thomas Guidott.

Wing gives date as 1686.

Includes contents.

"The lives and character of the physicians of Bathe, .." has separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779382303321

Autore

Colson Elizabeth <1917->

Titolo

Tonga religious life in the twentieth century [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Colson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lusaka, Zambia, : Bookworld Publishers, 2006

ISBN

9982-24-137-0

1-280-87564-X

9982-24-058-7

9786613716958

9982-24-057-9

9982-24-059-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

305.8963

Soggetti

Tonga (Zambezi people) - Religion

Tonga (Zambezi people) - Social life and customs

Ethnology - Zambia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The religious life of the Tonga-speaking peoples of southern Zambia is examined over the last century, in the sense of how they have thought about the nature of their world, the meaning of their own lives, and the sources of good and evil in which their cosmology and society have been transformed. The twelve chapters cover Time, Space and Language; Basic Themes, Tonga Religious Vocabulary and its Referents; the Vocabulary of Shrines and Substance; Homestead and Bush; Ritual Communities and Actors; Rituals of the Life Course; Death and its Rituals; Evil and Witchcraft; and Christianity and Tong