Plants and animals used on birth and death of the Ngandu (Bongando) in central Zaire

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Title:	Plants and animals used on birth and death of the Ngandu (Bongando) in central Zaire
Author:	Takeda, Jun
Year:	1998
Periodical:	African Study Monographs: Supplementary Issue
Issue:	25
Pages:	135-148
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Subjects:	Ngandu (Democratic Republic of Congo) birth rites death rites
External link:	http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68388/1/ASM_S_25_135.pdf
Abstract:	The Ngandu, slash-and-burn agriculturalists in the central Congo basin, believe that demons of illness and evil powers which can take lives are concealed everywhere. Based on fieldwork conducted in Ngandu villages in the Equateur Region, Zaire, during two five to six-month periods in 1975-1977, the author describes Ngandu beliefs and customs relating to pregnancy and childbirth, measures taken by parents to protect their young children, including the preparation of traditional herbal medicines to fight against various diseases, restrictions on the consumption of certain animals which apply to certain categories of persons, and death and funeral services. Bibliogr., note, sum.