"One of the most important statements of the 'inside view' of anAfrican religous system ever made... unique in its richness and depth." --Victor Turner

"Zulu Thought-Patterns is a monumental researchpiece whose writing is admirably clear, and its documentation praiseworthy." --Africa Today

..". unique and important... " --International Journal of African Historical Studies

Thisethnographic classic describes and analyzes the ritual cycle celebrated by Zulukinship groups as understood and interpreted by the Zulu themselves.

This enthnographic study describes and analyzes the ritual cycle celebrated by Zulu kinship groups at birth, maturity, marriage, sickness and death as understood and interpreted by the Zulus themselves. The Zulu world view emerges as a logical and coherent system of thought, expressed primariliy through rites, rituals and symbols Axel-Ivar Berglund spent his childhood in Zululand as the son of Swedish missionaries serving there.