Along an African border : Angolan refugees and their divination baskets

Along an African border : Angolan refugees and their divination baskets /

Anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Silva, Sónia
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Series:	Contemporary ethnography.
Subjects:	Fetishes (Ceremonial objects) > Zambia > Chavuma District. Baskets > Zambia > Chavuma District > Religious aspects. Divination > Zambia > Chavuma District. Luvale (African people) > Zambia > Chavuma District > Rites and ceremonies. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General. Divination Fetishes (Ceremonial objects) Luvale (African people) > Rites and ceremonies Manners and customs Chavuma District (Zambia) > Social life and customs. Zambia > Chavuma District
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Summary:	Anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-163) and index.
ISBN:	9780812203738 0812203739 9781283890335 128389033X