This article
summarises a section of a thesis (The Realm of the Supernatural
among the South-Eastern Bantu) accepted for the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy in the University of Oxford, June 1936.
e.g. Wallis, pp. 46-7; Malinowski,
(a) & (b). Full bibliographical references are given at the end
of the article.
Wallis. loc. cit.
4 Malinowski, (A) pp. 46-51, (b)
pp. 67-9.
Hunter, P. 24.
(a) pp 285 et circa.
7loc. cit.
8Vide e.g. Cook, Junod, Wedgwood.
Miss Hunter is better, but has not fully appreciated this point.
For the cultural background of the
South-Eastern Bantu vide Schapera (a).
N.B. They were widows before the
ceremony: the ceremony formally indicates them to the social
status of widows.
Evans-Pritchard (a).
Stayt.
Evans-Pritchard, E.E. (b).
The emphasis is on cult of the ancestors,
not cult of the dead.
Vide Hastings (a).
p. 411, seq passim.
Soga.
Vide Hastings (b),
pp. 411 seq., Wedgwood.
The village may be moved.
This point might be pursued with
profit after making allowance for technical ability. Thus Robertson
relates the difference in Greek and Egyptian architecture to religious
beliefs.
I am not considering the beliefs
that the ancestors send trouble, or help, their descendants, and punish
erring members of the family.
Bryant (a).
Hoernlé (a). Dr. Fortes
tells me that the Tallensi of the Gold Coast quite often give this
sort of reason for their ancestral cult.
Vide Schapera (b)
Blohm.
The former would in my opinion be
the usual course. Quarrels or mere increase in size would lead to
the hiving off of lineages.
Vide e.g. Denis Bradley.
I attended seances myself in Johannesburg in 1932.
Radcliffe-Brown, op. cit.
pasim. The Andamanese live in local groups each of which consists
of a number of families.
Op cit., Vol. 2 pp.
693 seq.
Vide Bryant, A.T. (b)
Callaway. Wangemann
Goldenweiser, A. Chapter on the
Iroquois.
Speck.
Schapera, I (c). Information from
Mrs. Hoernlé.
Radcliffe-Brown (b) pp. 124 seq.
Vide the author's
"Zulu Women in Hoeculture Ritual," Bantu Studies
Journal, Johannesburg, September, 1935.
Evans-Pritchard says much the same
of the Zande Mbori. Evans-Pritchard (c).
Hastings (a) loc. cit.
Ibid.
c.f. Junod's comparison of
the Thonga, Ila and Akamba. loc. cit. And are not Mussolini
and Hitler almost gods?
Vide Hastings (b) loc.
cit. Callaway pp. 4-5, foot note.
