Janzen has offered a critique of the tendency to focus on spirit possession in ngoma analyses at the cost of ignoring other elements, though he does not claim any element is more essential than any other. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Parfitt started wondering about another aspect of the Lemba's now-credible oral history: a drumlike object called the ngoma lungundu. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
In anthropological literature, the word ngoma has been used as a way to name a diverse and fluid set of ceremonies that commonly involve drums, other musical instruments, songs, dance, and spoken word/prayer. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Such religio-ritual processes are often referred to by the ancient Bantu word ngoma. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
They sat there and drank beer while the big drum started and the ngoma began to build. From Wordnik.com. [Hemingway on Hunting] Reference
He posits that at some undefined point the Lemba became the caretakers of the Ark, or the ngoma. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
There are many types, uses, and messages associated with religio-ritual ngoma throughout the Bantu-speaking world. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
In a majority of ngoma studies the matter of spirit possession and mediumship stands at the center of analyses. 122. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
The ngoma, according to the Lemba, was near-divine, used to store ritual objects, and borne on poles inserted into rings. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
She highlights the celebratory ngoma of a woman's first pregnancy and of a young woman upon exiting initiation seclusion. back. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Because of this, investigations inadvertently fall short of conveying the underlying epistemological rationale for ngoma persistence and transformation over time. 123. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
For an example of an ngoma unrelated to possession, see Vuorela, The Women's Question and the Modes of Human Reproduction: An Analysis of a Tanzanian Village, 99, 166. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Parfitt's final hunt for the ngoma, which dropped from sight in the 1940s, landed him in sometimes-hostile territory "Bullets shattered the rear screen," of his car, he writes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
I got to see traditional dancing ngoma, songs, poems, speeches, and my 5 good friends who were in the Lifeskills club who were graduating were VERY excited to see me and take pictures. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Parfitt thinks that whatever the supernatural character of Ark, it was, like the ngoma, a combination of reliquary, drum and primitive weapon, fueled with a somewhat unpredictable proto-gunpowder. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The ngoma is an artifact of the Lemba—who according to genetic markers appear to be correct in their belief that they are one of the lost tribes of Israel—and is said to have been built out of the ruins of the original Ark. From Wordnik.com. [Fools. Bureaucratic fools. They don’t know what they’ve got there. « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Vamwe tinotozovhiringwa nenzara nekumboenda kubasa, otherwise dai zvaibvira hazvo, tek tek nayo ngoma!. From Wordnik.com. [Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums] Reference
69At the heart of many medicinal practices and the role of ceremony in them is an institution that anthropologists have termed ngoma. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
The virtuoso qanoun player, Rajab Suleiman, and his ensemble of bass and percussion played the ngoma rhythms of traditional songs as well as classical Arab pieces. From Wordnik.com. [iToot Stream] Reference
70The goal of ngoma was to determine, by calling up the spirit force, what was being demanded, because it was believed that the underlying reason for malaise was related to spirit discontent. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Undaunted, Parfitt asserts that "this is the Ark referred to in Lemba tradition" — Lemba legend has it that the original ngoma destroyed itself some 400 years ago and had to be rebuilt on its own "ruins" — "constructed by priests to replace the previous Ark. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
For more on ngoma see chapter 5. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
"An mbira player since the age of five, Musekiwa is also an accomplished ngoma (drum) player in the Shona tradition, and he excels in playing hosho (gourd shakers), singing and traditional dance," says Ian, adding, "Musekiwa has recently started a project, Serevende Music and Cultural Arts Center, where visitors can come and learn in depth about mbira, singing, dance and other aspects of Zimbabwean music. From Wordnik.com. [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference
Ngangikhona eMkhondo kunoMake Thoko Didiza, kunonomonganeli kokunye, ePixley ka eSeme, eGovan Mbeki, nathi sizibizelwe izimbizo kwiConstituency bathi abantu, mongameli, sekele mongameli, minister Make Chikunga sidinga imisebenzi, sihluphekile, bathi abanye sidinga amanzi nokunye nonkunye bese bekhala abanye ngoma Police station njengase Mayflower, abanye bayasho ukuthi ubugebengu obunye babo bubangwa ukuswela nokuphela kwezimilo kubantu. From Wordnik.com. [Speech by Sindi Chikunga on the State of the Nation Address Debate] Reference
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