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The inheritance of private property among the Nama of southern Africa reconsidered
Africa • 53 (2) • Published In 1983 • Pages: 58-70
By: Carstens, Peter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article reconsiders existing anthropological accounts on inheritance of private property among the Name of Southern Africa. It introduces new materials on the status of women (vis-a-vis husbands and brothers) to argue that Nama patterns of inheritance show a good deal of variations as they were rooted in the sociological dynamics of individual families, as opposed to fixed rules.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Inheritance
- Property system
- Real property
- Family relationships
- Gender status
- Rule of descent
- Residence
- Division of labor by gender
- Cultural participation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Khoi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1910-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- South Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter Carstens
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 69)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khoisan (African people)