Mongo

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The Mongo live in the Congo Basin of central Zaire. The Mongo are primarily agriculturalists cultivating cassava and bananas, but with a very strong secondary reliance on gathering, fishing and hunting. The basic unit of social organization and economic activity is the patrilocal extended family led by a senior elder. Extended families are aggregated into localized lineages which are further grouped into clans. Clan members live dispersed across several villages, but form a political group under the leadership of elders from the senior lineage. Seclusion-ending festivals for first time mothers and grieving spouses are the major focus of Mongo organized ceremonials.

Identifier

Region

• Africa

Subregion

• Central Africa

Subsistence Type

• horticulturalists

Samples

• EA
• SCCS

Countries

• Congo, Democratic Republic of the

External Links

• Nkundo (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Nkundo (Standard Cross-Cultural Sample) D-PLACE