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Nkundo society
Kongo-Overzee • 6 • Published In 1940 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-12 [original: 148-161 ]
By: Boelaert, E., Sprey, Helen N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a brief synthesis of Nkundu social organization. Phases of the culture touched upon include the patriarchal 'clan,' kinship terminology, and relationships, the property system, exogamy, and kin relationships with the maternal clan and other clans. Material on what Boelaert calls 'clans' has been placed in category 613 Lineages. Boelaert is a Belgian ethnologist who has worked in the Congo for many years.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethos
- Community structure
- Lineages
- Localized kin groups
- Kin relationships
- Kinship terminology
- Inter-community relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mongo
- 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
- Central 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.
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Congo Basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. Boelaert
- Translation of: [De Nkundo-Maatschappij]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Helen N. Sprey
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mongo (African people)