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Shona customary law: with reference to kinship, marriage, the family and the estate
Manchester University Press • Manchester • Published In 1969 • Pages:
By: Holleman, J. F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Emphasis in this work is on the application of customary law to kinship, marriage, family, and the estate, all of which form a unity from the legal standpoint. As background to the study the author presents an introductory section dealing with the natural habitat, subsistence patterns, and local political organization. This is followed by extensive discussions of kinship organization, marriage, husband-wife relations, legitimacy and paternal responsibility, marriage dissolution, and the estate.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lineages
- Household
- Family relationships
- Property system
- Property in movables
- Inheritance
- Secondary marriages
- Termination of marriage
- Legal norms
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Districts
- Community heads
- Towns
- 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
- 1945-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Mashonaland East and western Manicaland, Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] J. F. Holleman
- Published on behalf of the Institute for Social Research, University of Zambia; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press, New York. "First published 1952."
- Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72190422
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Customary law--Zimbabwe--Mashonaland
- Law, Shona