Book
The pattern of Hera kinship
Oxford University Press • (17) • Published In 1949 • Pages: vi, 58
By: Holleman, J. F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed study of the kinship structure of the Hera subgroup who, at the time, lived in the central and southern portions of the Sabi Native Reserve, Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Although the primary emphasis is on kinship terminology and lineage structure, there is also a great deal of information on the clan, prohibited and preferred forms of marriage, general kinship obligations, and related patterns of behavior. The work concludes with an analysis of the elements of kinship found in the composition of a local political unit, the ward.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Clans
- Towns
- Tribe and nation
- Regulation of marriage
- Cult of the dead
- Inheritance
- Eschatology
- Judicial authority
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shona
- 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
- John Beierle; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1945-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1945-1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Buhera, Manicaland, Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- by J.F. Holleman
- Published for the Rhodes-Livingstone Institue by Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 50011776
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hera (African people)
- Hera (African people)--Kinship