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Evocations of the Child: Fertility Figures of the Southern African Region Book

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  • Evocations of the Child: Fertility Figures of the Southern African Region
  • Written by author Elizabeth Dell
  • Published by Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd, 1999/04/30
  • Many of the public and private collections around South Africa contain examples of what have come to be called 'fertility dolls': small, usually anthropomorphic forms fabricated by women, with a believed ceremonial use in aspects of the maturation and ide
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Acknowledgements 6
Foreword 8
Preface 9
Introduction 11
Women and material markers of identity 21
Double talk 29
The sorghum child: Nguana modula: South Sotho child figures 35
Fertile flowers of femininity: South Sotho fertility figures 53
Children of birth: Bana ba pelego: North Sotho child figures 69
The girl who ran away: Intombi zivemuka and other traditional beaded Zulu dolls 77
Enigma dolls: South Sotho and Zulu figures? 91
Children of earth: Zulu clay dolls 99
Venda and Pedi: Clay initiation figures for the domba and khomba ceremonies 111
"Ku veleka vukosi ...": To bear children is wealth ... Tsonga figures 119
Ntwane gimwane: Ntwane grass figures 131
Nebele umndwana: Ndebele dolls and walls 139
The puzzle of the pendant figures 151
Swazi umntfwana: Swazi evocations of the child 161
Musidzana wa tshirova: The girl who has a medicated rod: Gender ambiguities and the Venda thahu 173
Tonga child figures: The protogenic forms of the Tonga child figures 181
Lenge nwana: Lenge tattooed and scarified figures 187
Mpondo: Did the Mpondo people have dumbbell-shaped dolls? 193
Tswana mgwana ba pelego: Tswana child figures 203
Kwanyama Ovambo: Kwanyama child figures 207
Evocations of the child 219


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