ABSTRACT
In this paper, I present an analysis of one aspect of the religion of the Gogo people of central Tanzania, East Africa. 1 My approach may appear at first sight to differ radically from Evans-Pritchard’s treatment of a very similar problem in Nuer religion (Evans-Pritchard 1953, 1956), but my debt to him will be obvious in the following pages. Because of this, I begin with a brief discussion of Evans-Pritchard’s statement of the ‘identity’, in symbolic terms, of men and cattle in Nuer religion.
