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The religious system of the Amazulu

Izinyanga zokubula; or, Divination, as existing among the Amazulu, in their own words, with a translation into English, and notes.

by Henry Callaway

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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448p A re-issue of the 1870 edition; originally issued in 4 parts, 1868-1870, with last part incomplete

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Divination and oracles, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, and openlibrary-historical matched “Divination”. Retained metadata contains “Divination” in the subtitle, “Divination” in the subject metadata, “Divination” in the edition title, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “Divination”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Divination”· via Open Library
    • “Divination”· in subtitle
    • “Divination”· in subject
    • “Divination”· in edition title
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Mysticism”.

    • “Mysticism”· via Open Library
  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Ancestor worship”. Retained metadata contains “Ancestor worship” in the subject metadata.

    • “Ancestor worship”· via Internet Archive
    • “Ancestor worship”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Ancestor worship”· via Open Library
    • “Ancestor worship”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 9 editions; 4 cataloged here.

The religious system of the Amazulu. Izinyanga zokubula; or, Divination, as existing among the Amazulu, in their own words, with a translation into English, and notes

HathiTrust catalog record

1870———Public view

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

English only

————Source listed online copy

with a translation into English, and notes

Open Library record

1868J.A. Blair; Trübner and Co.English—Public

Subjects

11 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Robarts - University of Toronto
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 9 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BL2480 .Z8 C3
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: English only
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL251971W
Edition coverage
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