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PREFACEIn 1958/59, when I carried out the fieldwork on which this book is based,
Nyasaland was the scene of rapid social change. It has since become the
independent state of Malawi. This particular change took place while this
book was in the press, and the name by which the country was known at
the time of this study has been retained.
I am particularly indebted to the many Africans, whose communities
and churches are the subject of this book. I am grateful to them for much
kindness and hospitality to me while I was living among them as well as
for the guidance and information they so generously gave. I also wish to
thank members of the British Colonial Service and missionaries working in
the area, from whom I received much help and hospitality.
I wish here to acknowledge my gratitude to the International African
Institute for the award of a Research Fellowship, which enabled me to
undertake the fieldwork and a subsequent period of writing up, and in
particular to the Administrative Director, Professor Daryll Forde, for his
unfailing help in a variety of ways. I also owe a debt of gratitude to my
teachers and colleagues in social anthropology for their comments on the
earlier drafts of this book. The responsibility for any faults in it is of course
mine and not theirs. Among those who helped me in one way or another in
preparing for and carrying out this study, my thanks are especially due to:
Dr. R. G. Abrahams, Dr. R. J. Apthorpe, Dr. G. Atkins, Dr. D. G. Bettison,
Miss A. Currie, Che Duncan Kasombo, Mrs. M. Lyon, Rev. B. Malekebu, Dr.
H. H. Meinhard, Dr. J. M. Middleton, Professor J. Clyde Mitchell, Dr. H. A.
Powell, Rev. T. Price, Miss B. Pym, Dr. A. I. Richards, Rev. E. C. Severe, Dr.
V. G. J. Sheddick, Professor G. Shepperson, Mr. B. Walker, Dr. P. Worsley.
R. L. WISHLADE
October 1964.