The Lele of the Kasai, Volume 1This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists. The intellectural tools and examples she gained from Africanist ethnography continue to serve her explorations of European and American society. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE LELE ON THE | 9 |
THE PRODUCTIVE SIDE OF THE ECONOMY | 29 |
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH | 52 |
OFFICES AND AGESETS | 68 |
CLANS | 85 |
Relation between residence pattern and preferred | 92 |
I THE PRIVATE WIFE AND PRIVATE | 113 |
Pawnship obligations between clan sections | 165 |
AS CREDITOR AND DEBTOR | 168 |
THE ROLE OF THE ARISTOCRATIC CLAN | 186 |
RELIGIOUS SANCTIONS ON VILLAGE UNITY | 204 |
Incidence of sorcery accusations | 225 |
Nyamas widow | 233 |
CONTROL OF SORCERY | 241 |
EUROPEAN IMPACT ON LELE SOCIETY | 259 |
Effects of discrepancy in age at marriage | 117 |
II THE COMMUNAL VILLAGEWIFE | 128 |
BLOOD DEBTS | 141 |
Pawn asks lord to settle his blood debt | 147 |
Exchange of pawns | 155 |
Documentation of South Homba | 273 |
Genealogy of members of Lubelo clan in South | 276 |
Bibliographic References | 280 |
Common terms and phrases
accused adultery age-mates age-set bars of camwood Basongo Begetters betrothed Bikwak Biong blood compensation blood debt brother villages Bulomani clan Bushongo Bwenga Bwenga clan camwood child Chokwe Christians claim clan section clansmen Congo dead death died father father's clan fees fellow-clansman femme fight forest founding clans girl give Hanga Hanja Homba villages honour hunt husband Ihowa Ilebo ilumbi initiation junior Kabenda Kabenga-benga Kasai Kenge Ket clan killed later living Loange local clan section lord Lubelo clan Lukondo Lumbunji clan Makaka Makasu Makum male Malembi Malongo marriage married matrilineal Mbombe Middle Homba Mikope mother mother's brother Ndong never Ngomabulu Ngwe Nyimi official diviner oracle paid palm wine Pangolin pawns pawnship rights person poison ordeal polyandry polygyny quarrels raffia cloths raffia palm refused relations rites ritual role senior settle sexual intercourse sisters son-in-law sorcery South Homba village-wife village-wives wife wives woman women young