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Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe
the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book
emphasize the developmental or time dimension of the family,
analysing it as a process. In the seven different societies
described in East Africa, the Congo and the Transvaal the changing
nature of the distribution of rights in the family property and
resources is directly linked with the growth and change of the
family itself. First published in 1964.
Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph
concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society
was studied in detail and its implications explored. The Sonjo, a
Bantu-speaking people isolated among cattle pastoralists of what
was Northern Tanganyika, are remarkable for their complex
irrigation system and political organization. The inter-connections
between the irrigation system, the religious cult of a culture
hero, and the special features of their social organization are at
the core of this analysis.
Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe
the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book
emphasize the developmental or time dimension of the family,
analysing it as a process. In the seven different societies
described in East Africa, the Congo and the Transvaal the changing
nature of the distribution of rights in the family property and
resources is directly linked with the growth and change of the
family itself. First published in 1964.
Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph
concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society
was studied in detail and its implications explored. The Sonjo, a
Bantu-speaking people isolated among cattle pastoralists of what
was Northern Tanganyika, are remarkable for their complex
irrigation system and political organization. The inter-connections
between the irrigation system, the religious cult of a culture
hero, and the special features of their social organization are at
the core of this analysis.
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