Lungu

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Some Spirits Heal [Lungu people at south end of lake Tanganyika]

pp. 34-35, 69-70 ritual sexual behaviour

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WAS = Betty Potash : Widows in African Societies. Stanford U Pr, 1986.

C&HD = Jaan Valsiner : Culture and Human Development. SAGE, 2000.

MT =  http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/Archive/ethnology.html



'UCPAAE = UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS IN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY''. ''' http://www.archive.org/stream/universityofcali05univuoft/universityofcali05univuoft_djvu.txt



E =  http://www.afghansarzamin.com/History/Ethnology.htm

 

FYSA = John W. Griffin (ed. by Patricia C. Griffin) : Fifty Years of Southeastern Archaeology. U of FL Pr, 1996.

II&IT = Hill Gates : "Redefining the Incest Taboo". In :- Arthur P. Wolf & William H. Durham (eds.) : Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo. Stanford U Pr, 2004. pp. 139-60

pp. 54-56 legendary migrations

 

pp. 58-61 mythic cosmogony

 

pp. 62-63 swimming ordeals for chiefly office

 

pp. 64-66 "Mapepo pilgrimage route"

 

pp. 66-67 child-bride of god



 KD = http://www.visitnepal.com/nepal_information/kumari.php

 

p. 68 "The characteristic symbolic objects placed in the priestly miziingwa are pieces of white cloth, known by the special name of myaala." {cf. [Yoruba] Oba-tala}

pp. 78-108 spirits which heal

 

p. 113 special language of n ulu

 

pp. 5-8, 132-136 paranormal events experienced by the author

 

p. 6 "I experimented with illicit mind-altering substances, joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), searched for spiritual ... ancient wisdom. The quest led me to the literature of the nineteenth-century occult revival in Britain, and thence to Aleister Crowley and neopaganism."

pp. 144-146 isea (sing.), masea (pl.)

 

substances for viziimba (sorcery-medicines)

 

pp. 151-152, 164-171medicines found by dreaming

 

p. 165 "Lungu doctors also spoke of using ‘medicine’ to induce dreams of the requisite quality. Leaves of the mutanga tree [?Abrusprecatorius] ... were said to be effective, as were fragments of a swallow’s nest."

pp. 154-155 initiatory paranormal experiences

 

p. 157 functions of spirits

 

shadows of the dying; vyuuwa

 

apparatus for divination

 

Roy Willis : Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance. Berg, Oxford, 1999.