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Land law and land holdings among Valley Tonga of Zambia
Southwestern journal of anthropology • 22 (1) • Published In 1966 • Pages: 1-8
By: Colson, Elizabeth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article Colson is concerned with the theoretical-methodological point that there can be unanticipated variations in land tenure and rights under a given set of land laws. To illustrate this point Colson discusses Tonga land laws, rights and tenure patterns with special focus on the changes in these from 1956-1957 to 1962-1963. She states that the Tonga laws about obtaining, using and disposing of land have remained the same, but the predominant mode of obtaining land has changed. In the past, most Tonga lands were obtained from kin. After resettlement due to construction of the Kariba Dam, most land was obtained by claiming and clearing unsettled land, and rghts to the use and eventual disposition of land varied according to the mode in which the land was obtained. Consequently, patterns of use and inheritance have changed despite the constancy of Tonga laws. The article is highly specific, drawing on social relations and human-land relations only where they relate functionally to land tenure.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Land use
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Inheritance
- Household
- Lineages
- Legal norms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tonga
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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
- article
- 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
- Eleanor Swanson ; John Beierle ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1956-1957, 1962-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1956-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chezia, central-eastern Southern province, Zambia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Elizabeth Colson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-8)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47005758
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonga (Zambezi people)