Book
The land rights of individuals among the Nyakyusa
The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute • (1) • Published In 1938 • Pages: 52
By: Wilson, Godfrey.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Mr. Wilson, in this concise report, has described the land-tenure system of the Nyakyusa in its physical and social context. Of special interest is his description of the property rights in a polygynous family, the internal population movement and its effects upon the land-tenure rights of the new and former residents, and the legal and economic changes brought about by measures introduced by the British colonial administration.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cereal agriculture
- Tillage
- Land use
- Agricultural science
- Division of labor by gender
- Family relationships
- Polygamy
- Inheritance
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Status of adolescents
- Settlement patterns
- Local officials
- Missions
- Property system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nyakyusa and Ngonde
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1957 ; Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934-1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1934-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nyakyusa, Tanzania and Malawi
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Godfrey Wilson
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 42006147
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ngonde (African people)/Nyakyusa (African people)--Social life and customs
- Land tenure--Tanzania