Book
Marriage & the family among Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia
Manchester University Press • Manchester • Published In 1958 • Pages:
By: Colson, Elizabeth, University of Zambia. Institute for Social Research.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a major work on Plateau Tonga history, social structure, household economy, family and marriage. The author relies on court cases to convey the workings of family, kinship, and sexual relationships. Bridewealth status is a major factor in deciding outcomes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Marriage
- Family
- Kinship
- Informal in-group justice
- Sex and marital offenses
- Trial procedure
- 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
- Book
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946-1947, 1948, 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1945-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northeast-central Southern province, Zambia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Elizabeth Colson
- Published on behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Northern Rhodesia by Manchester University Press
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-369)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 60032588
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonga (Zambezi people)
- Tsonga (African people)
- Marriage--Zambia