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Reciprocity, redistribution and the male life cycle: variations in Middle River Tonga social organization
African social research • (2) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 139-157
By: Lancaster, Chet S., University of Zambia. Institute for Social Research.
Abstract
This paper is based on the 1962-1963 field notes of Elizabeth Colson. It examines male status and social networks among Gwembe Tonga communities in the post-Kariba Dam era. Resettlement disrupted the traditional institutional structure based on matrilineal residence and control of land. In the resettlement area, men turned to a strategy of actualizing extensive personal and kinship networks in a wider region as a way to amass wealth and prestige, undermining traditional solidarities. The author considers the potential for social conflict wrought by such changes.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Southern Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1956-1963
- Coverage Place
- eastern Southern province, Zambia
- Notes
- C. S. Lancaster
- Published on behalf of the Institute for African Studies, University of Zambia by the Manchester University Press; Distributed in the USA by Humanities Press, New York
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157)
- LCCN
- 72013521
- LCSH
- Tonga (Zambezi people)