The Yao Village: A Study in the Social Structure of a Nyasaland Tribe

Record summary

A. I. Richards’s Yao ethnographic work provides a route into beliefs about ancestors, illness, ritual specialists and social explanations for unusual experiences in Nyasaland, now Malawi. It may be valuable when comparing apparition testimony with dreams, bereavement, spirit possession and accusations involving the dead. The source is descriptive anthropology, not a modern paranormal case report, and its categories should be checked against Yao-language terms and later scholarship. The precise relevant passages and publication details need archival verification. This is AI-recalled discovery material only.