sangu

It was a struggle to convince women that I preferred to sit with them on the sangu, the symbolic and literal seat of everyday feminine discourse.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Women expressed further doubt about my gender when they insisted that I sit on a chair when I interviewed them, while they sat on a sangu (reed mat) on the ground off to one side.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

But he now called himself a _sangu_ or “chief priest” rather than

Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs 1889