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Sibs, privileged familiarity, and cross-cousin marriage among the Waluguru
Primitive man : quarterly bulletin of the Catholic Anthropological Conference • 8 (3) • Published In 1935 • Pages: 57-67
By: McVicar, Thomas.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is probably the first attempt to systematically enumerate the many Luguru clans by their names and seniority. Also included in the description is the cultural logic behind cross-cousin marriage as the ideal form.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Clans
- Traditional history
- Basis of marriage
- Regulation of marriage
- Kin relationships
- Cousins
- Naming
- Personal names
- Cult of the dead
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Luguru
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1933-1934
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Morogoro Region, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rev. Thomas McVicar
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99111903
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Luguru (African people)