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Mermaids and Mermen-Njuzu Myths Among the Shona of Zimbabwe

Author : Edison Mhaka
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517657925
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Mermaids and Mermen-Njuzu Myths Among the Shona of Zimbabwe written by Edison Mhaka and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chose the subject of mermaids (njuzu) because there is something interesting in the njuzu mystery. As the reader will discover, Shona myths about njuzu make very interesting reading as they seem to answer some questions related to the mysterious nature of njuzu. The word myth has been given different meanings. In common use, the word has been used to refer to untrue or fictitious stories. In this sense, myths are defined as stories not based on reality but the people's imaginations. In this book, however, the term is used with a specialised meaning which it has in religious studies. In religious studies, myths have been viewed as sacred narratives that reveal ultimate truth and realities (Eiade,1959:14).The special sense of the word myth was also noted by Aschwanden(1989) who observed that to the Karanga, mythology is experienced reality. Aschwanden's observation about the Karanga view on mythology equally applies to the Shona in general. To the Shona therefore, myths are an aspect of reality. The basis of njuzu myths are the lived experiences of the Shona people. To the Shona, njuzu myths are understood in a specialised religious sense which associates myths and reality. Thus, njuzu myths are taken seriously by the Shona. Some of the njuzu myths in this book are based on dreams. The Shona take their dreams seriously. Njuzu related dreams are therefore regarded by the Shona as part of lived reality. Hence, we find some Shona who give testimonies about njuzu based on their dreams. Available literature indicates that myths about mermaids are a culturally universal phenomenon going back to time immemorial. Myths about this legendary creature are found in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, America, the Far East and Africa.Different cultural groups have different names for this largely aquatic creature .It is called merrow by the Irish, Mami Wata by the West Africans, rusakals by the Russians and naiads by the Greeks. In Southern Africa' mermaids are referred to as Abantubomlambo by the Xhosa of South Africa (Elliot, 1970) and njuzu or nzuzu by the Shona of Zimbabwe (Gelfand, 1979). The word njuzu or nzuzu is used in singular or plural form. Thus, the Shona, like other cultural groups the world over, have myths related to mermaids and mermen.....

Mermaids & Mermen

Author : Edison Mhaka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781779312686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Reading for Water

Author : Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000937135
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Reading for Water written by Isabel Hofmeyr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in this book follow rivers, rain, streams, tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric, surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They propose new literary regions defined less by nation and area than by coastlines, river basins, monsoons, currents and hydro-cosmologies. Whether thinking along water courses, below the water line, or through the fall of precipitation, Reading for Water moves laterally, vertically and contrapuntally between different water-worlds and hydro-imaginaries. Addressing southern African and Caribbean texts, the collection draws on a range of elementally inclined literary approaches: critical oceanic studies, new materialisms, coastal and hydrocritical approaches, hydrocolonialism, black hydropoetics and atmospheric methods. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions.

Butterfly Burning

Author : Yvonne Vera
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466806079
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Butterfly Burning written by Yvonne Vera and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterfly Burning brings the brilliantly poetic voice of Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera to American readers for the first time. Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late l940s, the novel is an intensely bittersweet love story. When Fumbatha, a construction worker, meets the much younger Phephelaphi, he"wants her like the land beneath his feet from which birth had severed him." He in turn fills her "with hope larger than memory." But Phephelaphi is not satisfied with their "one-room" love alone. The qualities that drew Fumbatha to her, her sense of independence and freedom, end up separating them. And the closely woven fabric of township life, where everyone knows everyone else, has a mesh too tight and too intricate to allow her to escape her circumstances on her own. Vera exploits language to peel away the skin of public and private lives. In Butterfly Burning she captures the ebullience and the bitterness of township life, as well as the strength and courage of her unforgettable heroine.

Karanga Mythology

Author : Herbert Aschwanden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Karanga Mythology written by Herbert Aschwanden and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly reissued, this remains a rare work on the systems of interpretation and meaning, mythological traditions and realities of the Karanga people in Zimbabwe. The author considers the Karanga's cosmology, as a system of psychological and biological expressions, and in relation to mythological feeling and thinking. Topics covered include: creation myths; mythologies of the symbols of life and death; incest and marriage problems; forbidden sexual intercourse; pregnancy and birth; mythology as experienced reality; the mythology of an image of god; and the mythology of the night. Further cultural sources drawn on are Shona proverbs, which are to some extent included in the work. Throughout the study, the author aims to apply appropriate African, rather than narrowly Western, systems of interpretation and analysis to his material.

The Rainbow Serpent

Author : Dick Roughsey
Publisher : Harpercollins Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 9780207174339
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book The Rainbow Serpent written by Dick Roughsey and published by Harpercollins Childrens Books. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the aborigine story of creation featuring Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent.

The House of Hunger

Author : Dambudzo Marechera
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478609494
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The House of Hunger written by Dambudzo Marechera and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This explosive, award-winning novella of growing up in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), told in exquisite, imaginative prose, touches the readers nerve through the authors harrowing portrait of lives disrupted by white settlers, a young disillusioned black man, and individual suffering in the 1960s and 1970s. Marecheras raw, piercing writings secured his place in African literature as a stylistic innovator and rebel commentator of the ghetto condition. While The House of Hunger is the centerpiece of this collection, readers are also treated to a series of short sketches in which Marechera, with angry humor, further navigates themes of madness, violence, despair, and survival.

Without a Name and Under the Tongue

Author : Yvonne Vera
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374528160
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Without a Name and Under the Tongue written by Yvonne Vera and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two short stories about two young Zimbabwe women.

Dew in the Morning

Author : Shimmer Chinodya
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779223528
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Dew in the Morning written by Shimmer Chinodya and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dew in the Morning was written when the author, Shimmer Chinodya, was eighteen. The intensity of childhood memory is sharp and immediate. Godi, the young boy whose life we experience as he grows up, perceives more than he understands. The ambivalence or instability of the text lies at the juncture between the felt experience of the child, and the rational, interpretative, analysis of the adult. A Bildungsroman, Chinodya captures the centrality of land in the national consciousness: its beauty, its rhythms, its seasons and its fertility. But he does not romanticise the hardships: the droughts, poor harvests, over-crowding particularly as a result of the inflow of resettled people and the tensions over land and between peoples as they struggle to survive. Good humour, strict morality, hard work, and mutual support can be undermined by corrupt practice, or tainted by traditional ceremonies that are as frightening as they are powerful, and raise essential questions of belief and validity. Dew in the Morning, is a tender, evocative novel of growing up, but in it we see the seeds of many issues which Chinodya will dwell on in his later novels: familial tensions, the taut interplay of tradition and modernity, ancestral beliefs and Christianity.

The Stone Virgins

Author : Yvonne Vera
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466806060
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Stone Virgins written by Yvonne Vera and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-02-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction An uncompromising novel by one of Africa's premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose In 1980, after decades of guerilla war against colonial rule, Rhodesia earned its hard-fought-for independence from Britain. Less than two years thereafter when Mugabe rose to power in the new Zimbabwe, it signaled the begining of brutal civil unrest that would last nearly a half decade more. With The Stone Virgins Yvonne Vera examines the dissident movement from the perspective of two sisters living in a small township outside of Bulawayo. In a portrait painted in successive impressions of life before and after the liberation, Vera explores the quest for dignity and a centered existence against a backdrop of unimaginable violence; the twin instincts of survival and love; the rival pulls of township and city life; and mankind's capacity for terror, beauty, and sacrifice. One sister will find a reason for hope. One will not make it through alive. Weaving historical fact within a story of grand passions and striking endurance, Vera has gifted us with a powerful and provocative testament to the resilience of the Zimbabwean people.

Mami Wata

Author : Henry John Drewal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974872995
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Mami Wata written by Henry John Drewal and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the visual cultures and histories of Mami Wata and other African water divinities. Mami Wata, often portrayed with the head and torso of a woman and the tail of a fish, is at once beautiful, jealous, generous, seductive, and potentially deadly. A water spirit widely known across Africa and the African diaspora, her origins are said to lie "overseas," although she has been thoroughly incorporated into local beliefs and practics. She can bring good fortune in the form of money, and her power increased between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, the era of growing international trade between Africa and the rest of the world. Her name, which may be translated as "Mother Water" or "Mistress Water," is pidgin English, a language developed to lubricate trade. Africans forcibly carried across the Atlantic as part of that "trade" brought with them their beliefs and practices honoring Mami Wata and other ancestral deities. Henry John Drewal is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Other contributors include Marilyn Houlberg, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Amy L. Noell, John W. Nunley, and Jill Salmons.

Linda Goodman's Sun Signs

Author : Linda Goodman
Publisher : Boxtree
ISBN 13 : 1760789690
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Linda Goodman's Sun Signs written by Linda Goodman and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on your cosmic path to self-discovery with this comprehensive guide to the twelve signs of the zodiac. Your sun sign is determined by the day and month of your birth and dictates your zodiac personality. Taking each of the twelve signs in turn, world famous astrologer Linda Goodman explains the importance of the sun - the most powerful of all stellar bodies - in astrology. She describes the characteristics of each sign and how these can be used to really get to know the men, women, children, bosses and employees in your life. This newfound knowledge allows us to feel closer to one another and to understand that, as Goodman says, ‘Not all Capricorns are meek, not all Leos are outwardly domineering and not all Virgos are virgins.’ Learn all this and much, much more from the world-famous astrologer who has helped millions divine their way to success, happiness and love by studying the sun signs. Before publication of Sun Signs in 1968, astrology as we know it had a very limited following in the United States and around the world. With this book, Linda Goodman changed that forever, bringing metaphysical consciousness to millions of readers around the world for the first time. Newspapers began running astrology columns, and Goodman herself contributed to these in the larger mass circulation women's magazines. An increasing number of people knew their sign and how to interpret the signs of others, introducing the study of astrological tendencies as we now know it.

Where are the Ancestors?

Author : M. F. C. Bourdillon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book Where are the Ancestors? written by M. F. C. Bourdillon and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shona Religion

Author : Michael Gelfand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shona Religion written by Michael Gelfand and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the religion of the Shona with special reference to the Makorekore section of Rhodesia.

Expressing the Sacred

Author : James Leland Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Expressing the Sacred written by James Leland Cox and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition updates information and includes an explanation of the author's step-by-step presentation of the stages in the phenomenology of religion; an introduction to the current debate; over-reductionism; key philosophical terms used by Husserl; and reference sources for further reading.

In the Time of Cannibals

Author : David B. Coplan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226115740
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book In the Time of Cannibals written by David B. Coplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighboring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry—word music—that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. This music provides a culturally reflexive and consciously artistic account of what it is to be a migrant or part of a migrant's life. It reveals the relationship between these Basotho workers and the local and South African powers that be, the "cannibals" who live off of the workers' labor. David Coplan presents a moving collection of material that for the first time reveals the expressive genius of these tenacious but disenfranchised people. Coplan discusses every aspect of the Basotho musical literature, taking into account historical conditions, political dynamics, and social forces as well as the styles, artistry, and occasions of performance. He engages the postmodern challenge to decolonize our representation of the ethnographic subject and demonstrates how performance formulates local knowledge and communicates its shared understandings. Complete with transcriptions of full male and female performances, this book develops a theoretical and methodological framework crucial to anyone seeking to understand the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of performance. This work is an important contribution to South African studies, to ethnomusicology and anthropology, and to performance studies in general.

Bloody Mary in the Mirror

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604731873
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Bloody Mary in the Mirror written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven ways in which psychoanalysis illuminates folklore Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and explores various folklore genres to see what new light psychoanalysis can shed on folklore techniques and forms. In seven fascinating essays, folklorist Alan Dundes applies psychoanalytic theory to illuminate such genres as legend (in the vampire tale), folktale (in the ancient Egyptian tale of two brothers), custom (in fraternity hazing and ritual fasting), and games (in the modern Greek game of "Long Donkey"). One of two essays Dundes co-authored with daughter Lauren Dundes, professor of sociology at Western Maryland College, successfully probes the content of Disney's The Little Mermaid, yielding new insights into this popular reworking of a Hans Christian Andersen favorite. Among folk rituals investigated is the girl's game of "Bloody Mary." Elementary or middle school-age girls huddle in a darkened bathroom awaiting the appearance in the mirror of a frightening apparition. The plausible analysis of this well-known, if somewhat puzzling, rite is one of many surprising and enlightening finds in this book. All of the essays in this volume create new takes on old traditions. Bloody Mary in the Mirror is an expedition into psychoanalytic folklore techniques and constitutes a giant step towards realizing the potential psychoanalysis promises for folklore studies. Alan Dundes (deceased) was professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley.