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River of Blood: The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, C. A. D. 1600 Book

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River of Blood: The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, C. A. D. 1600, J. Matthew Schoffeleers recounts how the Portuguese presence in Zambesia in the period 1590-1622 led to more than three decades of internecine warfare and caused the people of southern Malawi tremendous suffering., River of Blood: The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, C. A. D. 1600
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  • River of Blood: The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, C. A. D. 1600
  • Written by author J. Matthew Schoffeleers
  • Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1992/11/30
  • J. Matthew Schoffeleers recounts how the Portuguese presence in Zambesia in the period 1590-1622 led to more than three decades of internecine warfare and caused the people of southern Malawi tremendous suffering.
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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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