Personal Names

Regulation of Marriage

Clans

Life and Death

Burial Practices and Funerals

History

Cultural Identity and Pride

Bibliographies in Sources

Mode of Marriage

Household

Lineages

Illegitimacy

Cult of the Dead

General Character of Religion

Prayers and Sacrifices

Radio and Television

Rest Days and Holidays

Spectacles

Chief Executive

Sexuality

Status, Role, and Prestige

Gender Status

Community Heads

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Theory of Disease

Magicians and Diviners

Priesthood

Religious Denominations

Urban and Rural Life

Basis of Marriage

Termination of Marriage

Residence

Polygamy

Organization and Analysis of Results

1710

Cultural Revitalization and Ethnogenesis

Mats and Basketry

Woodworking

Ceramic Technology

Division of Labor by Gender

5311

Visual Arts

Spirits and Gods

Nuclear Family

Extended Families

Sociocultural Trends

Production and Supply

Labor Supply and Employment

Material Not Relevant

Incorporeal Property

Inheritance

Reviews and Critiques

Traditional History

External Relations

Identification

Location

Climate

Linguistic Identification

Real Property

Renting and Leasing

Techniques of Socialization

Transmission of Cultural Norms

Education System

Domesticated Animals

Tillage

Diet

Territorial Hierarchy

Glossary

Settlement Patterns

Housing

Ethnic Stratification

Social Control

Population

Composition of Population

Dwellings

Multi-Ethnic Community Relations

Kinship Terminology

External Trade

Medical Therapy

Ingroup Antagonisms

Normal Garb

Weapons

General Tools

Utensils

Norms

Naming

Nuptials

Mourning

Luck and Chance

Organized Ceremonial

Puberty and Initiation

Majority

CULTURE SUMMARY: ZULU

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

SYNOPSIS

INDEXING NOTES

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

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The Zulu are located primarily in the northeast section of KwaZulu/Natal province, formerly called Zululand, in the Republic of South Africa. In the early nineteenth century king Shaka organized the Zulu into a powerful conquest state. Political organization was hierarchical with the king at the top who designated authority to chiefs of districts, and from them to homestead heads. The Zulu speak isiZulu, a language classified under what is known as the Nguni family of languages in South Africa. Traditionally the economy was based on horticulture and pastoralism, but by the twenty-first century agriculture has declined in importance with small-scale trading and the development of a money economy dominating.

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