The Bush Burnt, the Stones Remain: Female Initiation Rites in Urban Zambia (African Studies Centre/Leiden) - Softcover

Rasing, Thera

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3825856119 ISBN 13: 9783825856113

Verlag: Lit Verlag, 2008

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Female initiation rites appear to be at odds with westernized urban society in present-day Zambia. This book offers an interpretation of the relevance of female initiation rites in an urban setting among today's `modern' Christian women. Female initiation rites are linked to gender relations. In this book changes in gender relations during the last few centuries and decades are examined on a socio-economic, religious and political level. Despite these changes, initiation rites remain of remarkable significance to women. In this book, the author gives an in-dept description of these initiation rites and analyzes their meaning and relevance for Zambian women at present. Despite new types of initiation rites and wedding ceremonies, such as Christian weddings and kitchen parties, based on Christian ideas and ideas of modernity, traditional initiation rites remain the central institution that construe female Zambian identity. Initiation rites emphasize female fertility, but also the importance of inter-human relationships, necessary for procreation, as well as relationships with the ancestral spirits, and women's central religious roles.

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• Verlag: Lit Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3825856119
• ISBN 13: 9783825856113
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 358