The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa

Bridging history and anthropology, this richly documented account of the Lunda-Ndembu people of northwestern Zambia has at its center the paradox of continuity and change. To legitimate and justify innovations to their cultural identity and practice, the Lunda-Ndembu propose that such innovations have conceptual similarities to long-standing traditions.
While framing the discussion around classic anthropological oppositions—the individual versus the group, old versus young, females versus m...