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Publication details [#65045]

Turner, Noleen. 2018. Humor and scatology in contemporary Zulu ceremonial songs. Humor 31 (1) : 65–84.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ceremony | humor | rural community | song | women's language

Language as a subject

Zulu

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper centers on humor and scatology embedded in the supply and lyrics of a kind of modern ceremonial song sung by Zulu women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, still broadly practiced in rural regiona, termed amaculo omgonqo ‘puberty songs.’