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Title: | Kazi: Conceptualization of Labor in a Charismatic Movement among Swahili-Speaking Workers |
Author: | Fabian, Johannes |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | Cahiers d'études africaines |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 50 |
Pages: | 293-325 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
Subjects: | Swahili African Independent Churches black workers Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Labor and Employment |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1973.2713 |
Abstract: | Socio-semantic study of the concept of 'labor' (kazi) among the members of the religious movement known as the Jamaa (Swahili for 'family'). The Jamaa movement, founded by Placide Tempels, first became recognized as such in the early 50s at Ruwe (Kolwezi). At the time of the author's fieldwork in 1966-67, the Jamaa had spread beyond Katanga, mainly into the Kasai region. In the introduction the author criticizes the classic approaches to the study of the adaptation of Africans to paid labor in the regions under industrial development. Central problem: what is the linguistic evidence for the incorporation of an African worker's experience in the doctrine of a charismatic movement and what are the possibilities and limitations of a sociolinguistic interpretation of religious language with regard to the overall process of the formation of an African labor consciousness? Swahili texts with translation, commentary and semantic analysis, Notes, ref., French summary. |