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Sanza, A Characteristic Feature of Zande Language and Thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Extract

IN my book Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande (1937) there emerged from the treatment of these three topics a picture of some features of the Zande mind, revealing itself often as a suspicious, distrustful, hostile mind. Another facet of this mentality is revealed in the Zande concept of sanza (pi. asanza).

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1956

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References

page 161 note 1 The same sound in Zande may be written ι or γ.