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Reciprocity, redistribution and the male life cycle: variations in Middle River Tonga social organization
African social research • (2) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 139-157
By: Lancaster, Chet S., University of Zambia. Institute for Social Research.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper is based on the 1962-1963 field notes of Elizabeth Colson. It examines male status and social networks among Gwembe Tonga communities in the post-Kariba Dam era. Resettlement disrupted the traditional institutional structure based on matrilineal residence and control of land. In the resettlement area, men turned to a strategy of actualizing extensive personal and kinship networks in a wider region as a way to amass wealth and prestige, undermining traditional solidarities. The author considers the potential for social conflict wrought by such changes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Status, role, and prestige
- Age stratification
- Social relationships and groups
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Spirits and gods
- Magic
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- 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)
- eastern Southern province, Zambia
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. S. Lancaster
- Published on behalf of the Institute for African Studies, University of Zambia by the Manchester University Press; Distributed in the USA by Humanities Press, New York
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72013521
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonga (Zambezi people)