Rituals of fertility and the sacrifice of desire
Subtitle: Nazarite women's performance in South Africa
By: Carol Ann Muller.
Series: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Church of the Nazarites; Zulu (African people) -- Marriage customs and rites; Fertility cults -- South Africa
Description: In this text, Muller breaks new ground in the study of this changing region and along the way she includes details of her own poignant journey, as a young, white South African woman, to the other side of a divided society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
CD-ROM in pocket of inside back cover.