Essay on the Chewa nyau masker, spirit medium, and sorcerer, which constitute three parts of a single cosmological system. Whereas masking, spirit possession, and sorcery are usually treated as ...

Nyau is a secret society associated with masked initiation rites among the Chipeta and Mang'anja in southern Malawi. Its most distinctive masquerade is the anthropomorphic kapoli, but there are others ...