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Female Initiation Rites as part of Gendered Bemba Religion and Culture: Transformations in Women’s Empowerment
Full text linkSince the 1930s, female initiation rites have been a topic of interest for both anthropologists and certain White Fathers like Fr Corbeil and Fr Hinfelaar. Although the rites have been examined from various viewpoints, e.g. structural-functionalist viewpoints in the first half of the 20th century (Richards, 1940, 1956), and later by symbolic anthropologists (Rasing, 1995, 2001, 2004, and Simonsen, 2000a and 2000b), they are now mainly explained in terms of unequal gender relations and sexuality (Kamlongera, 1987; Kalunde, 1992). During my ongoing research (1992–2016), I was inspired by the interpretation of these rites by Hugo Hinfelaar, who, although not the first White Father who studied and attended these rites, was the first one who interpreted them in a primarily religious way, emphasising aspects such as transcendence, religion, matrilinity, fecundity and history. Moreover, by examining cultural and religious artefacts and symbols, including those used in initiation rites, Hinfelaar encouraged inculturation (which became a Catholic Church policy after Vatican II), contributed to the study of African Traditional Religion from a gendered viewpoint, and promoted Bemba female initiation rites. This paper will examine the resilience and transformations of female initiation rites in the past century from a gendered and religious viewpoint. It will claim that, in line with Hinfelaar’s statement that Bemba women have lost their important socio-religious position due to bena ngandu rule, colonialism and Christianity, these female rites should be seen as a way for women to hold on to and exert their power in their families and in their communities while both initiation rites and equal gender relations are encouraged by the Catholic Church today
Passing on the rites of passage Girl's initiation rites in the context of an urban Roman Catholic community on the Zambian Copperbelt
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Kitchen parties in Zambia
No full textBijna elke zaterdagmiddag kun je op verschillende
plekken in de Zambiaanse steden
drums horen en vrouwen horen zingen. Dan
wordt er een zogenaamde kitchen party gehouden.
Dat is een feest waarbij vrouwen een
cadeau geven aan een meisje dat binnenkort
gaat trouwen. De cadeaus zijn gebruiksvoorwerpen
voor in de keuken, en decoratieve
voorwerpen voor in huis
Negotiating Holistic Care with the 'Rules' of ARV Treatment in a Catholic Community-Based Organization in Kampala
No full text'A blessing in disguise':the art of surviving HIV/AIDS as a member of the Zionist Christian Church in South Africa
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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