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- Nyau abstract "Nyau (also: Nyao meaning mask or initiation) is a secret society of the Chewa, an ethnic group of the Bantu peoples from Central and Southern Africa. The Nyau society consists of initiated members of the Chewa and Nyanja people, forming the cosmology or indigenous religion of the people. Initiations are separate for men and for women, with different knowledge learned and with different ritual roles in the society according to gender and seniority. Only initiates are considered to be mature and members of the Nyau. The word Nyau is not only used for the society itself, but also for the indigenous religious beliefs or cosmology of people who form this society, the ritual dance performances, and the masks used for the dances. Nyau societies operate at the village level, but are part of a wide network of Nyau across the central and part of the southern regions of Malawi, eastern Zambia, western Mozambique and areas where Malawians migrated in Zimbabwe. During performances with the masks women and children often rush into the houses when a Nyau performer threatens, as the masks are worn by only male members of the society and represent male knowledge. At that moment in the performance and rituals, Nyau masked dancers are understood to be spirits of the dead. As spirits the masquerades may act with impunity and there have been attacks and deaths during performances in the past. Increasing westernization has led to a decrease in Nyau.".
- Nyau thumbnail Chewa_mask_-_Malawi.jpg?width=300.
- Nyau wikiPageID "30940992".
- Nyau wikiPageLength "20520".
- Nyau wikiPageOutDegree "48".
- Nyau wikiPageRevisionID "688390292".
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Bantu_peoples.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink British_Empire.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Africa.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Category:Malawian_culture.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Category:Religion_in_Africa.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Category:Zimbabwean_culture.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Cemetery.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Central_Africa.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Chewa_people.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Chinamwali.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Christian_Church.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Christianity.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Common_Era.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Dedza_District.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink File:Chewa_mask_-_Malawi.jpg.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Folk_dance.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Funeral.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Gerhard_Kubik_(Musikethnologe).
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Gonorrhea.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Highfield,_Harare.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Kungoni.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Malawi.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Mabvuku.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Malawi.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Manganja.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Maravi.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Mary_(mother_of_Jesus).
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Mask.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Masterpieces_of_the_Oral_and_Intangible_Heritage_of_Humanity.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Mission_(Christianity).
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Ngoni_people.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Religion_in_Africa.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Peter.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Secret_society.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Shona_people.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Southern_Africa.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Traditional_African_religion.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink UNESCO.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Veneration_of_the_dead.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Westernization.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Yao_people_(East_Africa).
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Zambia.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Zambian_kwacha.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink Zimbabwe.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink File:Gule_Wamkulu_mask.jpg.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLink File:Malawi_face_mask_(UBC-2007).jpg.
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gule Wamkulu".
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nyau".
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLinkText "Nyau#Dances".
- Nyau wikiPageWikiLinkText "nyau".
- Nyau wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Nyau subject Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Africa.
- Nyau subject Category:Malawian_culture.
- Nyau subject Category:Religion_in_Africa.
- Nyau subject Category:Zimbabwean_culture.
- Nyau hypernym Society.
- Nyau type Group.
- Nyau type Organisation.
- Nyau type Group.
- Nyau comment "Nyau (also: Nyao meaning mask or initiation) is a secret society of the Chewa, an ethnic group of the Bantu peoples from Central and Southern Africa. The Nyau society consists of initiated members of the Chewa and Nyanja people, forming the cosmology or indigenous religion of the people. Initiations are separate for men and for women, with different knowledge learned and with different ritual roles in the society according to gender and seniority.".
- Nyau label "Nyau".
- Nyau sameAs Q2005928.
- Nyau sameAs Nyau.
- Nyau sameAs m.0gg4l3r.
- Nyau sameAs Q2005928.
- Nyau wasDerivedFrom Nyau?oldid=688390292.
- Nyau depiction Chewa_mask_-_Malawi.jpg.
- Nyau isPrimaryTopicOf Nyau.