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Title:Chipimpi, vulgar clans, and Lala-Lamba ethnohistory
Author:Siegel, BrianISNI
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]
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