Table des matières
Part one. Puzzling generations: or, how the system really worked
Chapter one
Making a way through lifeChapter two
Mastering the succession of generationsPart two. Multivocal generations: Weaving kinship and politics
Chapter three
Family, residence and territoryChapter four
Composite KinshipPart three. Ritual as means of government
Chapter six
The state of warriorChapter seven
Sets and powers of women- 1. From group of uninitiated girls to set of spouses
- Song i: The visit to the muntuetû
- The circumcision on the public ground
- Song ii: Lament of the nkenye who was not initiated with her companions
- The period of seclusion
- The shaving of the ngutu: benjwo ya ngutu
- 2. Sets of women and the organization of power
- 3. The kaaria through singing
- Song iii
- Song iv
- Song v
- Song vi
- Song vii
- 4. The transmission of the kaaria
Chapter nine
Mbwaa, or the drama of suspended time- 1. The sources of the story
- 2. Mbwaa in its variations
- The challenges
- The escape: divination and the opening of the passage
- The escape: the crossing order
- After the escape
- 3. Between earth and sky, the renewal of the world
- 4. Mbwaa outside of Mbwaa
- 5. A historian in Utopia
- Annex. The Story of Kamankura (W.H. Laughton 1964)
Part four. Confronting modernity. Ritual rivalries and demographic issues
Chapter eleven
A change of demographic regime