Still lived
Marriage, old and new together
The ritual record treats a modern-and-traditional wedding as its own ceremony, with banns read in church and flags hoisted at the bride’s home. The marriage paper notes clan emblems on t-shirts and headdresses at today’s weddings.
- Who
- Couple, both families, community
- When
- The appointed days
- Where
- Homesteads and church
- Why
- A wedding seats two houses, not only two people.
Why this is marked “still lived”:
“Wearing t-shirts and headdresses sporting clan emblem is becoming a common occurrence during the wedding ceremony among Aawambo”
Summarised from Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi’s Oshiwambo rituals and ceremonies and Pre-marriage, marriage and post-marriage customs and rules.
This is a doorway, not the full account. The complete description stays with Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi until he releases it. Read it in his books.