Suku : FO46.

The Suku are a Bantu-speaking people living in hamlets and small villages scattered across the rolling savannas of the southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo. This collection of 10 documents describes the Suku of the Kwango district of Bandundu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (form...

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Corporate Author: Human Relations Area Files, inc.
Other Authors: Kopytoff, Igor.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2016-
Series:eHRAF World Cultures. Africa.
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Table of Contents:
  • 'Medicines' and the sexual transmission of disease among the Suku of Zaire ; Culture Summary, Suku ; Extension of conflict as a method of conflict resolution among the Suku of the Congo ; Family and lineage among the Suku of the Congo ; Knowledge and belief in Suku thought ; Matrilineality, residence, and residential zones ; Revitalization and the genesis of cults in pragmatic religion : the Kita rite of passage among the Suku ; The Suku of southwestern Congo ; The Suku of the Congo : an ethnographic test of Hsu's hypotheses ; Women's roles and existential identities / Igor Kopytoff.