Name: Spirits of Protest: Spirit-Mediums and the Articulation of Consensus among the Zezuru of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
ISBN: 9780521210522

by Fry, Peter, Fortes, Meyer, Goody, Jack

Spirits of Protest: Spirit-Mediums and the Articulation of Consensus among the Zezuru of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

by Fry, Peter, Fortes, Meyer, Goody, Jack

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ISBN-13: 9780521210522
ISBN: 0521210526
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Fry, Peter, Fortes, Meyer, Goody, Jack

SUMMARY

In this study, Peter Fry describes and analyses spirit-mediumship amongst a community of Zezuru people living near Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The book makes comparisons between the religious systems of the Zezuru and the Valley Korekore, both subgroups of Shona-speaking peoples, and concludes by discussing the role of Zezuru mediums in the context of the confrontation between black and white nationalisms.Fry, Peter is the author of 'Spirits of Protest: Spirit-Mediums and the Articulation of Consensus among the Zezuru of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)' with ISBN 9780521210522 and ISBN 0521210526.

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