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Kinship and lineage among the Yoruba
Africa • 25 • Published In 1955 • Pages: 352-374
By: Schwab, William B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents a detailed analytical description of the organization of the traditional kinship system on the Oyo Yoruba community of Oshogbo, a town of over 70,000 persons at the time of the research. This work might be considered as a supplement to 7: Lloyd, in so far as it discusses the same general subject matter but in greater detail as evident in the specific community under study. Traditional history, names, status, personal relationships, religious and political ties of the kinship group are some of the aspects of the culture which are discussed in conjunction with the author's analysis. The author was formerly lecturer in anthropology at Haverford College and Columbia University, and was associated with the Department of Anthropology, University College, London and Temple University.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Clans
- Kin relationships
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Household
- Personal names
- Traditional history
- Community heads
- Regulation of marriage
- General character of religion
- Polygamy
- Territorial hierarchy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yoruba
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- George R. Bedell ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1955
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- William B. Schwab
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yoruba (African people)