Book

Shona customary law: with reference to kinship, marriage, the family and the estate

Manchester University PressManchester • 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.
Subjects
Lineages
Household
Family relationships
Property system
Property in movables
Inheritance
Secondary marriages
Termination of marriage
Legal norms
Kinship terminology
Kin relationships
Districts
Community heads
Towns
culture
Shona
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