Book
Essay on the common law of Ruanda
M. Hayez, imprimeur de l'Académie Royale de Belgique • Bruxelles • Published In 1941 • Pages:
By: Hove, Julien van, Crawford, Dorothy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Vanhove was a colonial administrator and lawyer. This essay, a systematic account of native laws and customs, is based upon information gathered from questionnaires sent ot knowledgeable natives. It has materials on the family and clan, marriage and divorce, birth and death, family relations, property system, inheritance and guardianship, government structure, taxation, social classes, and the administration of justice. Since the author is writing primarily from the legal point of view, the information presented here does not provide any description of the intangible ties that bind the various social institutions together though it does provide an excellent account of the social and political means used by the Ruanda ruling class to maintain its feudalistic position over a docile population.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Extended families
- Serfdom and peonage
- Residence
- Etiquette
- Infant care
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Secondary marriages
- Gender status
- Normal garb
- Slavery
- Polygamy
- Property system
- Real property
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rwandans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1935
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1935-1941
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Rwanda
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Vanhove
- Translation of: [Essai de Droit coutumier de Ruanda]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Dorothy Crawford in 1959
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- ltf91024335
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology Rwanda