1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910671105903321

Autore

Cornejo Manríquez Aníbal

Titolo

Código de procedimiento civil / / Anibal Cornejo Manriquez

Soggetti

Civil procedure - Chile

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786620003321

Autore

Soko Boston

Titolo

Vimbuza the healing dance of Northern Malawi / / Boston Soko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zomba, Malawi : , : Imabili Indigenous Knowledge Publications, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

99908-0-250-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Imabali text ; ; no. 4.

Disciplina

306.096897

Soggetti

Ethnology - Malawi

Healing - Malawi

Tumbuka (African people) - Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A world cultural heritage."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Historical background -- Vimbuza as a possession cult -- Vimbuza as a social fact -- Style in vimbuza songs -- Vimbuza songs -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of this book is to show that the possession cult of Vimbuza presents itself as an oral genre which is part and parcel of African Oral Literature. The ethno-linguistic study which we undertake will permit us to catch a glimpse of its whole complexity. The analysis has a bearing on four principal aspects. Historical developments: a certain number of facts concerning the birth of possession among the



Tumbuka; possession: the study attempts to show how the cult articulates itself with its beliefs and the use of divination; the social role: analysis of social functions; the style: an analysis of the linguistic procedures which are characteristic of Vimbuza songs. The presence of rhetorical figures would confirm that we are talking about an oral literary genre.