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The Suku are a Bantu-speaking people living in hamlets and small villages scattered across the rolling savannas of the southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo. They were traditionally organized in a pyramidal political system, with the royal lineage at the apex and, at the bottom, a number of smaller matrilineages averaging some thirty-five members. Subsistence is primarily agricultural, broadly supplemented by gathering, hunting, fishing and domestic animals; local mission and government employment and migratory labor are increasingly important. There is a strong division of labor by gender.

Matrilineality, residence, and residential zones

'Medicines' and the sexual transmission of disease among the Suku of Zaire

Knowledge and belief in Suku thought

Revitalization and the genesis of cults in pragmatic religion

Women's roles and existential identities

Culture Summary

The Suku of southwestern Congo

Family and lineage among the Suku of the Congo

The Suku of the Congo

Extension of conflict as a method of conflict resolution among the Suku of the Congo

Author	Title	Publication Date
Kopytoff, Igor	Matrilineality, residence, and residential zones	1977
Kopytoff, Igor	'Medicines' and the sexual transmission of disease among the Suku of Zaire	1991
Kopytoff, Igor	Knowledge and belief in Suku thought	1981
Kopytoff, Igor	Revitalization and the genesis of cults in pragmatic religion	1980
Kopytoff, Igor	Women's roles and existential identities	1990
Kopytoff, Igor	Culture Summary	2016
Kopytoff, Igor	The Suku of southwestern Congo	1965
Kopytoff, Igor	Family and lineage among the Suku of the Congo	1964
Kopytoff, Igor	The Suku of the Congo	1971
Kopytoff, Igor	Extension of conflict as a method of conflict resolution among the Suku of the Congo	1961

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