Between Ontological Transformation and the Imagination of Tradition: Girls’ Puberty Rituals in Twenty-first Century Botswana
The paper contrasts Tswapong puberty ritual, the mothei, conceived of as effecting an ontological change in being and personhood, with the newly invented Kgatla puberty ritual. The latter, it is argued, while reflecting authority and embracing a collective tribal identity, lacks the ordeals of death...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2014, Volume: 44, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 355-385 |
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puberty rituals
ontological change
invention of tradition
Gender
Tswana
Botswana
seriti
Tswapong
Kgatla
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Volltext (Verlag) |