Umsindleko: a Gcaleka ritual of incorporation
by McAllister, P. A
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- ISBN 10
- 086810034X
- ISBN 13
- 9780868100340
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(Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 1981) 086810034X. Occasional Paper Number Twenty-Six, Institute of Social and Economic Research. 226 x 158 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. iv + 56. Slightly rubbed; occasional fox spot. Good to very good condition. "The Gcaleka people of the Transkei speak of going out to work in the urban-industrial centres of South Africa as going to 'war' and celebrate the return of a migrant worker with joy and thanksgiving. One of the rituals which marks return is a beer drink called umsindleko. In this study umsindleko is examined within the context of a series of ritual events associated with labour migration, and against a background of economic dependence on the earnings of migrant workers. Drawing extensively on the skilful oratory performed at umsindleko the relationship between Gcaleka society and the world of wage employment is explored, in an attempt to illustrate the 'meaning' of labour migration to the people involved in it." .
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- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
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- Title
- Umsindleko: a Gcaleka ritual of incorporation
- Author
- McAllister, P. A
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 086810034X
- ISBN 13
- 9780868100340
- Publisher
- (Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 1981) 086810034X
- This edition first published
- 1981-01
- Keywords
- Migrant labour. Employment. Xhosa. Transkei. Rituals. Customs. Anthropology. Ethnology. Ethnography Eastern Cape
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- Eastern Cape;
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