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| Title: | The Nyau societies: our present understanding |
| Author: | Schoffeleers, M. |
| Year: | 1976 |
| Periodical: | The Society of Malawi Journal |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 59-68 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Mozambique Malawi Zambia |
| Subjects: | dance Chewa |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778358 |
| Abstract: | Nyau are proper to the Chewa-speaking peoples of Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. It is the name for a masked dance and for the societies which stage this dance. Brief survey of economic, political, social, religious, artistic, and organisational aspects of the nyau and indication of some of the theories proposed with respect to its historical reconstruction. |
