ISBN:
9781315017242
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1315017245
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9781136529054
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1136529055
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (280 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography
Parallel Title:
Print version Family estate in Africa
DDC:
392.3096
Keywords:
Families Africa
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Kinship Africa
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Africa
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Kinship
;
Families
;
Kinship
;
Families
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions
;
Africa
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction / Robert F. Gray -- The Shambala family / E.V. Winans -- The Gusii family / Robert A. LeVine -- Family and lineage among the Suku of the Congo / Igor Kopytoff -- Property and the cycle of domestic groups in Taita / Alfred Harris and Grace Harris -- Property, cross-cousin marriage, and the family cycle among the Lobedu / Eileen Jensen Krige -- The Arusha family / P.H. Gulliver -- Sonjo lineage structure and property / Robert F. Gray.
Abstract:
Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book emphasize the developmental or time dimension of the family, analysing it as a process. In the seven different societies described in East Africa, the Congo and the Transvaal the changing nature of the distribution of rights in the family property and resources is directly linked with the growth and change of the family itself. First published in 1964
Note:
Originally published: London: Routledge and Paul, 1964. - Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record
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Originally published: London: Routledge and Paul, 1964
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