Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe

Updated: 1 Mar 2021

Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe

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In the 1930s social anthropologists Eileen Jensen Krige and Jacob Daniell (Jack) Krige undertook intensive fieldwork among the Lobedu people of the northeastern Transvaal of South Africa (now in the province of Limpopo), whose ruler, Modjadji, was widely known as a rain-maker. In 1943 their ethnographic monograph, 'The Realm of a Rain-Queen. A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society', was published and has remained in circulation ever since.

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South African History Online. (2021, March 1). Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150755

South African History Online (2021) 'Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe', South African History Online, 1 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150755 (Accessed: 7 August 2026).

South African History Online, Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150755, (accessed 7 August 2026).

"Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe." South African History Online, 1 Mar. 2021, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150755. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe." South African History Online. March 1, 2021. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0150755.