The center of Africa, Overlapping boundaries of three countries: southwestern Sudan, the eastern edge of Central African Republic, and the northeastern portion of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Where do the Azande Live?
100
It is the effort to maintain norms and regulate conflicts within a given social group.
What is Social Control?
100
Supernatural techniques intended to accomplish specific aims.
What is magic?
100
This can only be used by men alone and is the only one that can either confirm or deny the use of witchcraft.
What is the chicken(benge)/ poison oracle?
100
Literature that assert and affirm social rules.
What are Trickster Tales?
200
A ghostly being to whom the creation of the world is attributed.
Who is Mbori?
200
Can be either a custom or social action that functions to diminish status differences by directing anomalistic individuals back to community norms.
What are Leveling Mechanisms?
200
This is how witchcraft is carried out.
What is willpower?
200
This is considered to be the least reliable of all oracles.
What is the Washing Board oracle?
200
Most recognized character in Azande folk Literature.
Who is Ture?
300
Buildings that settled in Sudan beginning early in the twentieth century that attempted to promote Christianity.
What are Missionaries?
300
This is used as a social control for the young. And told to them as a means of promoting good moral values.
What are Trickster Tales?
300
Magical Powers that reside within the Azande.
What is mangu?
300
This oracle uses two branches from different trees in order to answer a question.
What is the termite oracle?
300
A young audience of Azande children.
Who are the stories meant for?
400
Belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces.
What is Religion?
400
These serve as a leveling mechanism in the Azande Society and contribute to social control.
What are Witchcraft Accusations?
400
This type of magic is protective.
What is white magic?
400
Guidance in planning a marriage, taking a journey, building a house, organizing a raid.
What are reasons for talking to an oracle?
400
The trickster often goes for these in the stories told.
What are desirable things in Azande culture?
500
Woodworking, pottery, basket weaving, net making and making clothing
What are important skills to the Azande?
500
Older Azande will often use this fictional figure in order to demonstrate social order to kids.
Who is Ture?
500
What chiefs can blame each other for.
What is sorcery?
500
A chicken dies during an oracle ordeal; a wing is cut, off placed on a stick and brought to the local deputy of the chief.
What happens when a witch is confirmed?
500
The main characters for the stories ignore this in order to try to accomplish their objectives.