book chapter

Unity and disunity: Cottica Djuka society as a kinship system

Maroon societies : rebel slave communities in the Americas • Baltimore • Published In 1979 • Pages: 320-369

By: Köbben, A. J. F..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This is a good summary of Ndyuka social organization. The author discusses the Ndyuka kinship system, ancestors, avenging spirits, marriage and residence patterns, succession of headmen, inheritance, and kinship terminology. He identifies the three major social groups in Ndyuka society as the matrilineage ('belly people'), 'father's children,' and affines. The typical residence pattern is one of polylocality in which the husband rotates residence among his different wives who live in separate villages.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Inheritance

Regulation of marriage

Residence

Kinship terminology

Parents-in-law and children-in-law

Lineages

Community heads

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Ndyuka

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

1999

RegionThe area the document pertains to

South America

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Amazon and Orinoco

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

book chapter

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

Ian Skoggard ; 1997

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1961-1962

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

1961-1964

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Suriname

NotesAdditional notes

A. J. F. Köbben

Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-369)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

79016806

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Djuka people