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The inheritance of private property among the Nama of southern Africa reconsideredarticle 1983 • Carstens, Peter
Khoi • Africa > Southern Africa
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 inher...