New Books in Anthropology
42min2022 JUL 15
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In 2005, Tony Permanattended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with themadhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for guidance, protection, and their collective prosperity. Perman's encounters with the spirits, the mediums who bring them back, and the accompanying rituals form the heart of his ethnographic account of how the Ndau experience ceremonial musicking. As Perman witnessed other ceremonies, he discovered that music and dancing shape the emotional lives of Ndau individuals by inviting them to experience life's milestones or cope with its misfortunes as a group.Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life(U Illinois Press, 2020) explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau's collective approach to their future. The result is a vivid ethnomusicological journey that delves into the immediacy...

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