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Strategies and norms in a changing matrilineal society : descent, succession, and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia

Title: Strategies and norms in a changing matrilineal society : descent, succession, and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia / Ladislav Holy.
Author: Holý, Ladislav.
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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Description

viii, 237 : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 58

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; no. 58.

Subject

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 224-227.

Contents

Descent categories and local ties in traditional Toka society -- Technological development and the restructuring of the relations of production -- Changing norms of inheritance -- The structure of local groups -- The changing concept of the basimukowa -- Mukowa and ritual -- The role of the mukowa in succession -- The role of the mukowa in inheritance -- Mukowa: representational and operational models -- Norms as a strategic resource.

ISBN

0521303001
9780521303002

LCCN

85013222

OCLC

ocm12162038
12162038
SCSB-637127

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Princeton University Library