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Marriage among !Kung Bushmen
Africa • 29 • Published In 1959 • Pages: 335-364
By: Marshall, Lorna.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of marriage among the Kung based on fieldwork undertaken in 1952-53 as a member of the Harvard Peabody-Smithsonian Kalahari Expeditions. The author, an ethnologist, provides information on marriage regulations and incest taboos, betrothal practices and marriage ceremonies. Brief statements on Kung culture, the status of women and materials on divorce are also included. Case materials are used to illustrate the general statements made by the author.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Regulation of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Termination of marriage
- Kin relationships
- Kinship regulation of sex
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- San
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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
- Betty Potash ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1950s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- !Kung San, Nyae Nyae region, Namibia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lorna Marshall
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)