The Realm Of A Rain Queen A Study Of The Pattern Of Lovedu Society | African Studies

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. |The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society | African Studies