The living dead: guardians of the gardens, advisors, and patrons of the modern Haya of Tanzania | Sibirskie Istoricheskie Issledovaniia – Siberian Historical Research. 2019. № 4. DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/26/2

The living dead: guardians of the gardens, advisors, and patrons of the modern Haya of Tanzania

The article presents analysis of how the Haya from North-Western Tanzania see the cult of ancestors and funeral rites today. It shows that Christianisation / Islamisation, territorial remoteness from native places, and the transformations taking place in modern Tanzania, associated with globalisation - all contribute to change in the traditional norms of the Haya, including the funeral complex.

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хая, Танзания, культ предков, похоронно-поминальный обряд, бачвези, коммуникация между живыми и мертвыми, Haya, Tanzania, ancestral cult, funeral rite, Bachwezi, communication between the living and the dead

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Butovskaya Marina Lvovna	Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences	marina.butovskaya@gmail.com
Dronova Daria Alekseevna	Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences	dariadronova@yandex.ru
Nkybonaki Jason	Research and Consultancy at the Mwa-limu Nyerere Memorial Academy, Zanzibar Campus

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