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Social integration of the San society from the viewpoint of sexual relationships
African Study Monographs • 9 (3) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 153-165
By: Tanaka, JirŌ.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source focuses on the Central Kalahari San and examines four examples of social clusters united by marriage and other sexual relationships. In his examination the author discusses the incidence of polygyny, divorce, remarriage, and an extramarital relationship he calls ZAHU and touches on the implications of these relationships for interpersonal relations and residential groupings among the Central Kalahari San.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Household
- Polygamy
- Basis of marriage
- Termination of marriage
- Extramarital sex relations
- Childhood activities
- Life history materials
- 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
- Gerald Reid ; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jiro Tanaka
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82641558
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)