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Browsing by Subject "Shona"

Browsing by Subject "Shona"

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  • MORAL DIMENSIONS OF SOME SHONA TABOOS (ZVIERA) 
    Masaka, Dennis; Chemhuru, Munamato (Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, 2011)
    This study analyses the moral dimensions of Shona taboos. It argues that Shona taboos provide moral sanctions that help in shaping a person’s unhu (virtue) in the human community. It is through such inculcation of proper ...
  • Shona Ethnoaesthetics: Beauty and the Shona Proverb 
    Matereke, Kudzai; Mapara, Jacob (Journal of Pan African Studies, 2009-03)
    This paper seeks to examine how the Shona traditional society conceptualised beauty; drawing from the meaning and content of the Shona proverb, suggesting that traditional society emphasised beauty as holistic to include ...