Book
Marriage customs in southern Natal
Government Printer • Pretoria • Published In 1933 • Pages: ii, 103
By: Kohler, Max, Van Warmelo, N. J. (Nicolaas Jacobus).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is the work of a missionary doctor who spent eight years among the Bhaca and Khuze tribes of the Zulu nation. The text is arranged to give a simultaneous account of most of the material by both the author and the native informants. The latter passages are rendered in both Zulu and English. Material is presented on puberty rites, adolescent relationships between the sexes, courting and betrothal customs, marriage ceremonies, behavior of newly married women, and practices at the time of the first birth. Information is most detailed on females, with particular attention being given to hair dressing, taboos and restrictions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural participation
- Domesticated animals
- Personal grooming
- Gift giving
- Literary texts
- Social relationships and groups
- Visiting and hospitality
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Avoidance and taboo
- Sexuality
- Sexual stimulation
- Premarital sex relations
- Childbirth
- Puberty and initiation
- Adolescent activities
- Majority
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zulu
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- 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
- Jan Simpson ; John Beierle ; 1979
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1925-1933
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1925-1933
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ama-Khuze and Ama-Bhaca Zulu, Centocow Mission, Bulwer District, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edited by N. J. V. Warmelo
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zulu (African people)