Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society
Subtitle: Descent, Succession and Inheritance among the Toka of Zambia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521024327
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social life and customs; Inheritance and succession (Tonga (Zambesi) law); Social Science; Sociology; Zambia; Africa - General; Anthropology - Cultural; History : Africa - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Tonga (Zambesi people)--Social life and custo; Tonga (Zambesi people)--Social life and customs; Anthropology - General; Inheritance and succession (Tonga (Zambezi) law); Kinship; Tonga (Zambezi people)
First sentence: In Guta and Cifokoboyo, the two areas which have not yet been fully affected by the modern development taking place elsewhere among the Toka, all people to whom an individual can trace a genealogical connection are his or her babululu (kinsmen, sing. mubululu).