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| Title: | Ukuu Ritual: Death and Sexuality among the Kamba |
| Author: | Ueda, Fujiko |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Periodical: | Senri Ethnological Studies |
| Issue: | 15 |
| Period: | August |
| Pages: | 109-129 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | Kamba death rites Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| Abstract: | Death and sexuality among the Kamba, one of the Bantu-speaking peoples of Kenya, are discussed in terms of an examination of one ukuu ritual, performed over a period of four days from January 13 to 16, 1979. An ukuu ritual is performed when a household has suffered a series of deaths in succession in order to remove death entirely from the body and possessions of the deceased persons as well as from their family members and homesteads. Bibliogr., map, notes, photogr. |