(Cape Town: Struik, 1970). Africana Collectanea Series Vol XXXV. No 342 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. Facsimile reprint of the Springdale Mission Press edition. 8vo; original black rexine, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt publisher's device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (viii) + 448; frontis. portrait; etchings. Dustwrapper a bit tanned and edgeworn; trace of foxing to edges and endpapers, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "This book contains much unique information formerly unknown, even to the many missionaries who worked at that time amongst the Zulus. Mendelssohn says: 'The tribal and household nature of the worship is clearly marked. It is scarcely too much to say that no savage race has ever had its mental, moral and religious conditions displayed to the scientific student with anything approaching the minute accuracy which characterises this work. ... The whole range of savage life, both in the body and out, passes before us. Every kind of savage rite, from solemn ritual sacrifice to the magical scarecrow or the love-charm of a Zulu swain.'" .

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Bookseller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10078
Title: The Religious System of the Amazulu
Author: Callaway, H
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: (Cape Town: Struik, 1970)
Keywords: Ethnology. Ethnography. Nguni. Native Customs. Religion. Witchcraft. KwaZulu-Natal. Limited editions Anthropology
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Device: Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
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