The Realm of a Rain Queen
A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society| By: | E. Jensen Krige; J. D. Krige |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138589742 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780429957888 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1943 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Originally published in 1943 this book discusses the life and culture of the Lovedu, a Bantu tribe in South Africa. As well as discussing the Rain-Queen, much of the book is devoted to the royal institutions; the network of links woven by kinship, marriage and marriage cattle, the legal procedure of compromise and appeasement and various aspects of magic, witchcraft and religion. Considered as a whole, the culture emerges as a structure supporting and in turns supported by the Rain-Queen.