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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- FOREWORD -- Contents -- THE PEOPLE -- Nomenclature -- Royal Genealogy -- ETHNIC COMPOSITION AND HISTORY -- Location -- PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT -- DEMOGRAPHY -- LINGUISTIC DATA -- Traditional Literature -- Music: Dancing -- SOCIAL ORGANISATION -- The Homestead -- Territorial grouping -- Marriage Regulations -- Divorce -- Kinship -- Succession -- Age: Age Classes -- ECONOMY -- Land Tenure -- Cultivation -- Animal Husbandry -- Diet -- Hunting -- Building -- Arts and Crafts -- Division of Labour: Specialisation -- Distribution of Wealth -- Recent Economic Developments -- POLITICAL STRUCTURE -- Traditional Central Organisation -- Local Government -- Slavery -- Legal Procedure -- Modern Administration -- RELIGION, RITUAL AND MEDICINE -- Ancestral Cult -- Nature Worship -- Rain-Making -- Christianity -- The Incwala -- War Ritual -- Medicine Men and Diviners -- Death and Burial -- APPENDIX I. Genealogy of Swazi Kings -- APPENDIX II. List of Chiefs -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- THE SHONA -- Tribal and Sub-tribal Grouping -- Nomenclature -- Tribal marks and appearance -- Location of tribes: ethnic distribution -- linguistic distribution -- neighbouring tribes -- Language -- Literature and music -- Physical Environment -- Demography -- History -- Social Organization -- Kinship -- Age and sex -- Marriage -- prohibited and preferential marriage -- inheritance of widows -- divorce -- Inheritance and succession -- Main Features of Economy -- Land tenure -- Soil cultivation -- Animal husbandry -- Hunting -- Fishing -- Building -- Specialization and trade -- Ownership of property -- Political Organization -- Local organization -- Legal system -- Position of the chiefs -- Religion, Ritual and Magic -- The High God -- Tribal gods -- Ancestral spirits -- Rain-making -- Medicine men and diviners -- Other spirts -- Appendix-Shona dialectal population -- Witchcraft and sorcery -- Ritual murders -- Totemism -- Death and burial rites -- Christianity -- Bibliography -- THE NDEBELE -- Introduction -- Tribal and Sub-tribal Grouping -- Nomenclature -- Location -- Tribal Mixture -- Demography -- Language -- History -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Agricultural and animal husbandry -- Division of labour -- Crafts -- Music, dances, games -- Trade -- Social Organization and Political System -- The kingdom -- Provinces and regiments -- Modern political system -- The caste system -- Modern settlement pattern -- Wider territorial groupings: interrelations between homesteads -- Kinship -- Law -- Land tenure -- Cattle -- Inheritance -- Slavery -- Position of women -- Main Cultural Features -- Physical characteristics -- Dress -- Birth and youth -- Marriage -- choice of a spouse

Clothing is a bundle of cultural symbols that has been dealt withsomewhat eclectically and indiscriminately in the anthropological wash.Some writers have speculated on the origins of clothing, stressing suchqualities in human nature as modesty and vanity; others, more materiallyoriented, have emphasized utility; others again have listed separategarments, the materials of which they were made, and the techniquesemployed; and some have paid attention to broader historical and sociological dimensions. In a pioneering study, Kroeber used documentary evidence to correlate fluctuations in women's fashions (using indices of skirt length, width of waist, and depth of decolletage) with major social and political upheavals (Kroeber, 1919, 1940), but perhaps because of the nature of his data, as well as his particular orientation, he made no reference to the persons involved, and overlooked internal cultural variations and conflicts of style. These issues received more attention from scholars trained in the Malinowski tradition of fieldwork, and they described clothing worn by different persons in different situations; those who worked in areas where people of different cultures were brought in contact in the colonial situation indicated the meaning of changes in style of clothing over time. General textbooks draw attention to the correlation between clothing and social status and to such facts as the cost of clothing, its technology and its aesthetics.

Different approaches have been developed to relate the concept of space to other social phenomena. Some of these approaches are critically examined in an effort to find a theoretical framework for interpreting a wide range of events in which sites, specific pieces of space, were of crucial significance. It is argued that there is a condensation of values in special sites, and that transactions that constitute the totality of social life may be spatially mapped with sites expressing relatively durable social structure. The process of social interaction may be expressed empirically through disputes over sites and symbolically in the configuration of sites.