Beyond the Dog's Name: A Silent Dialogue among the Shona People

Tatira, Liveson

doi:10.1353/jfr.2004.0006

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“…Chemhuru and Masaka (2010) also noted that totemism was significant in extending some moral consideration to animals, a practice which was believed to promote a virtuous life that fostered a desirable environmental ethic. This explains why the violation of totemism was believed to invite an angry reaction at supernatural level (Tatira 2004). Thus, the bond created by totems among the ancestors, the environment and the people was also a strategy to protect wildlife.…”

Section: Chinemukutumentioning

confidence: 99%

Dimensions of totemic history and its related accessories among the Gumbo-Madyirapazhe clan of Gutu, Zimbabwe

Tarugarira¹

2017

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Ties of kinship traced through blood (consanguinity) are of fundamental importance to individuals because they enshrine historical content which cannot be ignored. The social recognition of these linkages through totems provides the individual with a blue print of interaction which forms a vital bas is for cooperation. This article challenges the so-called irrationality of totemism, taking an uncelebrated dimension of how the practice is crucial for tracing the history of a people and the cementing of domestic social relations. The study explores and traces the history behind toponyms with the intention of showing that totems are a rich heritage as a source of history and social registers through which people can identify themselves. The study has been motivated by the Afrocentricity theory which values preservation of oral history as the natural way of storing information and historical realities in many African societies.

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Section: Chinemukutumentioning

confidence: 99%