- Title
- Dungamanzi/stirring waters: Tsonga and Shangaan art from southern Africa, Nessa Leibhammer (Ed.): book reviews
- Creator
- Simbao, Ruth K
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147358
- Identifier
- vital:38629
- Identifier
- https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC31053
- Description
- A woman known as Nkoma We Lwandle (Cow of the Ocean) and a man, Dunga Manzi (Stirring Waters), are remembered as the first Tsonga diviners. Trained by Nzunzu - a powerful water serpent - they were pulled into a lake for a few months and later emerged as influential healers. Such stories (like the one relayed by Dederen of a young girl, Nsatimuni, who also temporarily disappeared into a lake) represent 'death' and 'rebirth', reflecting Arnold van Gennep's (1909) well-known schema of rites de passage: séparation, marge, and agrégation. Separated from daily life, these characters sink into another world where people breathe in water like a foetus in the liquid depths of a womb, evoking impending new birth (p. 171).
- Format
- 3 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- De Arte
- Relation
- Kerkham Simbao, R., 2008. Dungamanzi/stirring waters: Tsonga and Shangaan art from southern Africa, Nessa Leibhammer (Ed.): book reviews. De Arte, 2008(78), pp.65-67.
- Relation
- De Arte volume 78 number 65 67 January 2008 0004-3389
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