essay
Family and lineage among the Suku of the Congo
family estate in Africa • London • Published In 1964 • Pages: 83-116
By: Kopytoff, Igor.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document argues that the residential cycles of Suku families are shaped by the practical necessity of reconciling the two contradictory principles of Suku social organization: corporate autonomous matrilineages and clans, and residence rules that require each male child to reside with his father and paternal uncles. This led to a residence pattern in which the men of each matrilineage find themselves dispersed among several villages following marriage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Household
- Nuclear family
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Rule of descent
- Social relationships and groups
- 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
- 1920-1960
- 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64055273
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Suku (African people)