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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Hanretta, Sean
Title:
Women, marginality and the Zulu state: women's institutions
and power in the early nineteenth century
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Journal of African history -- Vol. 39, no. 3
Published By: Original publisher
Journal of African history -- Vol. 39, no. 3
London ; New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998.
389-415 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
by Sean Hanretta
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2005. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Zulu (FX20)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Theoretical orientation in research and its results (121);
Sociocultural trends (178);
Gender status (562);
Regulation of marriage (582);
Mode of marriage (583);
Lineages (613);
Chief executive (643);
Executive household (644);
Gender roles and issues (890);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study argues that social, cultural, and material
conditions of women became highly stratified during the early nineteenth century. Potential
for both exploitation and the acquisition of power and prestige increased as women's lives
became integrated into the Zulu state. Changes in women's status and roles were not only
the result of state centralization, but an important source of power which kings used to
try to maintain control over lineage elites. As a result, struggles for political power
between Zulu kings and lineage elites played a large role in women's lives, affecting the
degree of stratification in general, as well as determining in part the fate of individual
women. While some fundamental elements of the cultural construction of masculinity and
feminity remained constant throughout this period and shaped the ways in which
socio-economic changes were experienced, certain roles began to be seen as determined by
women's social and political association rather than as inhering in the nature of the
female body. Individual women responded in a variety of ways to try to minimize losses in
power or status and to capitalize on new opportunities; but women also initiated more
coherent society-wide changes. Growing dissatisfaction among women with the extent of state
interference in personal relationships or with the disparity between their own status and
that of royal and favored women may have brought about one of the most important changes in
Zulu religious history: the appearance of women as dominant members of the class of
diviners (p. 415).
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
47
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
fx20-047
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Ethnologist-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 2004
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
ca.1800-1890s
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
South Africa
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Zulu (African people)
