ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Botswana National Museum, Isaac Schapera, Kgotla

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 222
• Professor: Ronald Niezen

Document Summary

Ethnography of judicial process isaac schapera anth222 lecture notes. Fieldwork technique at the foundaion of briish social anthropology. Audrey richards, chisungu: a girl"s imitaion ceremony among the bemba of zambia, 1956. The bamba girl, on the last night of her iniiaion ceremony, handles meiculously constructed potery igurines (mbusa) and rehearses the songs associated with them. This stage in the ceremonial cycle consists of legal acts involving the girl in the public assumpion of her new duies. Colourful iniiaion ceremony device of the memorizaion of the repeated pracices throughout their life: memory device in society. The girl in quesion looked irritated and impaient, and then shrugged her shoulders, gave up her project and went inside the house. Never witnessed a ceremony like the bamba, ceremonies seemed to be dying out in. Africa, book is a record of what may now be exinct.