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Lifestyle of the Zulu
Kenyetta McClelland
ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (DSF1246A)
Instructor: Geoff Wood
12/15/2012
Lifestyle of the Zulu
The Amazulu people from the Natal Province of South Africa originated around the 14th or 15th century with a population of about 3 million and spoke IsiZulu from (Nguni) chiefdom. Neighboring chiefdoms were the Sotho, Tswana, and the closest to the Zulu were the San in which the Zulu incorporated their lifestyle patterns from them. Rural Zulu main form of subsistence is pastoralizing and agriculturalist herding cattle and farming corn and vegetables which included labor intensive work and domestic duties (http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Zulu.html.) The Zulu believed in Nyulunkulu a creator god from the spirit world in which chiefdoms called mana supernatural powers that manifest itself in people (Nowak & Liard, 2010a). Zulu peoples backgrounds of historical conquest has made them a multi-cultural society bound together by similar language, similar rituals and celebrations performed around common symbols and common African systems of belief. (Monteiro-Ferreira, 2005.) Zulu people had a strong socio- political organization that lead to and distinguished culture, victory and transformations of the past present and future brought about, military and political change, after apartheid set in most Zulu were conquered, divided and their beliefs and values were integrated into the Western world’s industrialized and capitalized lives.
The Zulu or the AmaZulu (people of the heaven) motto was “let us rise and build” they speak a native language of the Bantu IsiZulu and believe in mana or in a supernatural force that controls their health and their wealth. Their ancestors migrated to KwaZulu in the ninth century in chiefdoms when there was no consolidation, no nation, or military reform amongst the Zulu people, Although Zulu lacked power and military organization there strong socio-political
Kenyetta McClelland
ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (DSF1246A)
Instructor: Geoff Wood
12/15/2012
Lifestyle of the Zulu
The Amazulu people from the Natal Province of South Africa originated around the 14th or 15th century with a population of about 3 million and spoke IsiZulu from (Nguni) chiefdom. Neighboring chiefdoms were the Sotho, Tswana, and the closest to the Zulu were the San in which the Zulu incorporated their lifestyle patterns from them. Rural Zulu main form of subsistence is pastoralizing and agriculturalist herding cattle and farming corn and vegetables which included labor intensive work and domestic duties (http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Zulu.html.) The Zulu believed in Nyulunkulu a creator god from the spirit world in which chiefdoms called mana supernatural powers that manifest itself in people (Nowak & Liard, 2010a). Zulu peoples backgrounds of historical conquest has made them a multi-cultural society bound together by similar language, similar rituals and celebrations performed around common symbols and common African systems of belief. (Monteiro-Ferreira, 2005.) Zulu people had a strong socio- political organization that lead to and distinguished culture, victory and transformations of the past present and future brought about, military and political change, after apartheid set in most Zulu were conquered, divided and their beliefs and values were integrated into the Western world’s industrialized and capitalized lives.
The Zulu or the AmaZulu (people of the heaven) motto was “let us rise and build” they speak a native language of the Bantu IsiZulu and believe in mana or in a supernatural force that controls their health and their wealth. Their ancestors migrated to KwaZulu in the ninth century in chiefdoms when there was no consolidation, no nation, or military reform amongst the Zulu people, Although Zulu lacked power and military organization there strong socio-political
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