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Title: | Chipimpi, vulgar clans, and Lala-Lamba ethnohistory |
Author: | Siegel, Brian |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | History in Africa (ISSN 1558-2744) |
Volume: | 35 |
Pages: | 439-453 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) Zambia |
Subjects: | ethnological names social history Lala Lamba joking relationships vulgar parlance |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/history_in_africa/v035/35.siegel.pdf |
Abstract: | The Lala and the Lamba (Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia) straddle both the Congolese and Zambian sides of the Shaba Pedicle. This paper examines the anomalous, one-sided joking between the Vulva and (allegedly pubic) Hair clans of the Lala and Lamba chiefs. It suggests that this joking, like the claim that these clans share a common mythical ancestor, is best explained in terms of 19th-century Lala and Lamba history and their competing claims to the Pedicle's easternmost end. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |