The AMA-Xosa : Life and Customs
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology
ISBN-10
1108066844
ISBN-13
9781108066846
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 21st, 2013
Print length
508 Pages
Weight
764 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.90 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnographySocial and cultural anthropology
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Published in 1932 by John Henderson Soga (1860–1941), a Xhosa minister and scholar, this important work of social anthropology records the customs and traditions of the Xhosa as distinct from other tribal communities in South Africa.
Son of Tiyo Soga, the first black South African to be ordained, John Henderson Soga (1860–1941) was a Xhosa minister and scholar. Like his father, he was one of the first of his people to be educated in Europe and to marry a European woman. His perspective on his people's history and culture is therefore distinctive. Conscious of the effects of modernity on Xhosa traditions, he published this work of social anthropology in 1932 to record their way of life as distinct from other tribal communities in South Africa. Soga traces the historical development of their clan system and laws, while offering uniquely informed insights into their beliefs and practices, such as the function of witch doctors and the customs of circumcision, lobola or 'bride price', and polygamy. The South-Eastern Bantu (1930), Soga's earlier survey of three branches of the Bantu family, is also reissued in this series.
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