Book
Shona customary law: with reference to kinship, marriage, the family and the estate
Manchester University Press • Manchester • Published In 1969 • Pages:
By: Holleman, J. F..
Abstract
Emphasis in this work is on the application of customary law to kinship, marriage, family, and the estate, all of which form a unity from the legal standpoint. As background to the study the author presents an introductory section dealing with the natural habitat, subsistence patterns, and local political organization. This is followed by extensive discussions of kinship organization, marriage, husband-wife relations, legitimacy and paternal responsibility, marriage dissolution, and the estate.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Southern Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 1991
- Field Date
- 1945-1948
- Coverage Date
- 1945-1950
- Coverage Place
- southern Mashonaland East and western Manicaland, Zimbabwe
- Notes
- [by] J. F. Holleman
- Published on behalf of the Institute for Social Research, University of Zambia; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press, New York. "First published 1952."
- Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index
- LCCN
- 72190422
- LCSH
- Customary law--Zimbabwe--Mashonaland
- Law, Shona