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Zande

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Zande

 or Azande

People of central Africa who live in The Sudan, Congo (Kinshasa), and Central African Republic. They speak an Adamawa-Ubangi language of the Niger-Congo family. They occupy widely scattered family homesteads, subsisting through agriculture and hunting. Patrilineal clans are numerous. Witchcraft, magic, and divination are major features of social life. The Zande number about 3.8 million.


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The seminal work, WITCHCRAFT, ORACLES AND MAGIC AMONG THE AZANDE, the result of Evans-Pritchard's three year study of the Zande tribe from central Africa during the 1920's, exposes a particularly limited scope of witchcraft activity; the social situations in which witchcraft practices are evoked among Azande, according to Evans-Pritchard, all involve physical misfortune.
The installation then moved to a grouping of beautiful bottle forms from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with several highly burnished and heavily ornamented wares by the Zande or Mangbetu and a few unusual figurative vessels by the Zela and the Lunda or Luba.
We have been looking for the best Internet Access Gateway device to provide passengers reliable, secure and user-friendly broadband access at the airport," said Attingo's Chief Executive Officer, Edward van de Zande.
 
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