Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
Subtitle: Nazarite Women's Performance in South Africa (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780226548197
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Religions of Indic & Oriental origin; Religious rites & ceremonies; Sacred & religious music; Theory of music & musicology; Women's studies; African Religions And Mythologies; Music; Archaeology / Anthropology; Southern Africa; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Ethnomusicology; General; Church of the Nazarites; Fertility cults; Marriage customs and rites; South Africa; Zulu (African people)
First sentence: In this book, I examine the constitution of ritual and expressive culture as a feminized and sacred practice in one of South Africa's largest and oldest indigenous religious groups-ibandla lamaNazaretha (the Church of the Nazarites, 1910-1997), more commonly known as the followers of Shembe.