Social Relations in the Understanding of Physical Events among the Korekore

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Title:	Social Relations in the Understanding of Physical Events among the Korekore
Author:	Bourdillon, M.F.C.
Year:	1974
Periodical:	Zambezia
Volume:	3
Issue:	2
Period:	December
Pages:	61-70
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zimbabwe
Subjects:	Korekore philosophy Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:	https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_257
Abstract:	This paper examines the relationship between the social order and the understanding of certain physical events among the Eastern Korekore, a Shona-speaking community in the extreme north-east corner of Rhodesia between the Moçambique border and the Mazoe river. The paper concerns beliefs about and reactions to sickness and death, and attempts to analyse how the Korekore explain and understand these. Ref., notes, genealogical table.