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| Maps and Charts | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Pt. 1 | The Mbona Cult in the Shire Valley | |
| Ch. 1 | The Shire Valley and Its Population | 17 |
| Ch. 2 | The Ritual Cycle of the Mbona Cult | 49 |
| Ch. 3 | The Principals and the Medium | 71 |
| Ch. 4 | The Quest for a Spirit Wife and the Struggle for Mang'anja Political Supremacy, 1859-1983 | 92 |
| Ch. 5 | The Lundu State in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries | 117 |
| Ch. 6 | Oral Traditions and the Retrieval of the Distant Past | 140 |
| Ch. 7 | Ideological Confrontation in Oral Tradition | 160 |
| Pt. 2 | Mbona Biographies | |
| General Introduction | 175 | |
| The Mbona I Tradition | ||
| Text I/A: Ngabu and Chiphwembwe (1907) | 178 | |
| Text I/B: Chapirira and Kumbiwanyati (1964) | 181 | |
| The Mbona II Tradition | ||
| Text II/A: M. E. Rambiki (1960) | 183 | |
| Text II/B: S. Chimbuto (1966) | 197 | |
| The Mbona III Tradition | ||
| Text III/A: Che Ngwangwa (1967) | 207 | |
| Text III/B: Che Chapalapala (1967) | 224 | |
| A Malawian Synthesis | ||
| Text IV: J. E. Chakanza (1967) | 244 | |
| Notes | 259 | |
| Sources | 303 | |
| Index | 317 |
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