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Title: | Some Notions of 'Purity' and 'Impurity' among the Zulu |
Author: | Ngubane, Harriet |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 46 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 274-284 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Zulu magic women Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159399 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1976-046-00-000025 |
Abstract: | Among the traditional patrilineal Zulu of South Africa, women are more often associated with mystical experiences than men. While on the one hand, as daughters or sisters, women may be associated with the positive mystical forces as diviners on the other hand, as mothers and wives, women are often related to the negative pollutine mystical forces. It is the logic behind these notions that is examined in this article. Conclusion: population is associated with situations which mark the beginning and the end of live. These situations are associated with married women. Notes, ref., résumé en français. |