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The Suku of southwestern Congo
Peoples of Africa • New York • Published In 1965 • Pages: 441-477
By: Kopytoff, Igor.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses three salient features of Suku culture and society: 1) a kinship organization that combines matrilineal descent with patrilocal residence, 2) a political organization that combines centralized kingship with broadly autonomous segmentary lineage groups, and 3) periodic initiation rites of males and females of different ages and from different kin groups. The author argues that this crossing of sex and age lines might have contributed to the integration of Suku local communities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Territorial hierarchy
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- General character of religion
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Suku
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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 ; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kwango district, Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- NotesAdditional notes
- Igor Kopytoff
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-477)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65010276
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Suku (African people)