Mambila Nggwun - the construction and deployment of multiple meanings in ritual

This ongoing research project by David Zeitlyn and Michael Fischer has received support from The British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC. This page presents a summary of the main proposal, final report to ESRC and some of the ersults in advance of other publications elsewhere.

Nggwun Research Proposal

A short ethnographic description of the Nggwun ritual
Extracts of the digital video

Exercise download now includes Atiu video as well

VideoGrok  with exercise video


As part of the research we used a simulation of Mambila Spider divination. A version of this is available online

Email: Michael Fischer or Email: David Zeitlyn