Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society: Descent, Succession and Inheritance Among the Toka of Zambia
(Book #58 in the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)
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The theme of this book is the analysis of the changes that have occurred in the kinship patterns of the Toka of South Zambia as a result of a shift in their form of production from hoe agriculture to ox-drawn ploughing. Dr Holy uses the rich, detailed ethnography that he provides about these changes to confront several theoretical issues of current anthropological interest, as well as to examine the basic methodological problems of anthropological...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521303001
ISBN13:9780521303002
Release Date:May 1986
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.11 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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