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Bantu Beliefs and Magic / With particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya Colony; together with some reflections on East Africa after the war

Chapter 4: PART I NATURAL RELIGION
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Ethnographic investigation of Kikuyu and Kamba religious life that documents rites, magical practices, and beliefs governing sacrifice, taboo, initiation, divination, healing, witchcraft, and ancestral observances. It analyzes ceremonial forms, the roles of ritual specialists, and the social logic tying prohibitions and charms to community cohesion and responses to illness, misfortune, and death. Comparative reflections situate local customs within wider Bantu religious patterns, and appended observations consider social and cultural changes in East Africa following the war.

PART I

NATURAL RELIGION

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