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Zande|ˈzændiː|
Also 9 Zandey; 9– Zandeh. Pl. Zandes, Azande († A-Zande).
[Native name.]
a. (A member of) a people of mixed ethnic origin inhabiting central Africa.
b. The language of this people. Also attrib. as adj.
1873E. E. Frewer tr. Schweinfurth's Heart of Afr. II. xiii. 6 As marks of nationality, all the ‘Zandey’ score themselves with three or four tattooed squares. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 474/1 The A-Zandey are to be regarded as rather of mixed Negroid than of pure Negro stock. Ibid. The Zandey language..appears to be everywhere spoken with considerable uniformity. 1891A. H. Keane tr. W. Junker's Trav. in Africa II. iv. 102 The hair, arranged Zandeh-fashion, though somewhat carelessly, in tresses, projected under a tarbush round the occiput. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 230/1 The Zandehs proper..are now found to stretch, with interruptions, from the White Nile above the Sobat confluence to the Shari affluent of Lake Chad. 1918R. G. C. Brock in Sudan Notes & Records Oct. 249 The Zande tribe. Ibid., The true Azande live in the Belgian Congo. Ibid. 253 The Azande are divided into different clans and most of these believe that they return to the earth in the form of some animal. Ibid. 257 The ordinary Zande dance is a very dull affair. 1938E. M. North Bk. of Thousand Tongues 353/2 Zande... Spoken by perhaps 300,000 people in northeastern Belgian Congo, eastern French Equatorial Africa and southern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 1955M. Gluckman Custom & Conflict in Afr. iv. 85 If a Zande murdered a fellow-tribesman with his spear he was tried in court by his chief. Ibid. 90, I find it difficult to see exactly how the Azande witchcraft charges work. 1978J. Skorupski in Hookway & Pettit Action & Interpretation 85 Winch's account of the meaning of Zande magic is ultimately not at all unlike that which some symbolist writers might give. |