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Journal article
2013
African Studies Centre, Boston University

In their 1920 ethnography of the Ila, Reverend Edwin Smith and District Commissioner Andrew Dale described as "prostitution" the Ila institution of kuweza lubono mung'anda (lit. "to hunt for wealth at home," also called "hunting cattle"), in which a wife and husband agree that she take lovers to attract gifts …

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