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Kinship and marriage among the Lozi of Northern Rhodesia and the Zulu of Natal

African systems of kinship and marriageLondon, EnglandPublished In 1958 • Pages: 166-206

By: Gluckman, Max.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this work Gluckman discusses the relation of bride-price size, presence or lack of agnatic lineage groups, inheritance rules, general stability of marriage, and nuclear household among the Lozi and the Zulu. He concludes that there is some correlation between the lack of distinct lineage grouping and marriage instability, as seen among the Lozi; conversely, that there is a correlation between rigid agnatic lineage rules and marriage stability among the Zulu. There are extensive passages of comparison with other central African and southern Bantu societies.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Marriage
Family
Kinship
Kin groups
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Lozi
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
1995
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Africa
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Southern 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.
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
Adolph Hoehling ; Sigrid Khera
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1940-1942, 1947 (Lozi); 1936-1938 (Zulu)
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
not specified
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Zambia
NotesAdditional notes
Max Gluckman
Includes bibliographical footnotes
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Lozi (African people)/Zulu