A01=Monica Wilson
African anthropology
Author_Monica Wilson
Category=JHM
Chief Mwaipopo
Chief Porokoto
chieftainship
Common Language
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Father's Half Sister
Father's Sister
Father’s Half Sister
Father’s Sister
Fetch Firewood
generational conflict
Given Marriage Cattle
kinship systems
Large Harems
lineage dynamics
Long House
Lupa Gold Fields
Marriage Cattle
Mother's Brother
Mother’s Brother
Nyakyusa
Nyakyusa Chiefdoms
Nyakyusa Men
Nyakyusa Woman
Nyakyusa-Ngonde society evolution
rain-making
ritual
Rungwe District
Rungwe Mission
rural community transformation
sacrifices
Senior Half Brother
Senior Son
Senior Village Headmen
Senior Wife
social change Africa
Songwe River
Tanganyika
Tanzania
Village Headmen
Young Men
Young Men's Village
Young Men’s Village
Product details
- ISBN 9781138600386
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1977, this volume completes with a wealth of case material and against the background of a whole century, Monica Wilson's detailed study of the Nyakyusa-Ngonde people of Tanzania and Malawi. The unusual age-village system for which the Nyakyusa are well known has broken down under the economic presures of the prohibition of cattle raiding, lad shortage and labour migration and the changing values of the 20th century. The book traces the roots of these developments which are parallelled in many parts of Africa and emphasize the zig-zag nature of the path of social change.
Monica Wilson, née Hunter was a South African anthropologist, who was professor of social anthropology at the University of Cape Town.
