Gender, Lineage, and Ethnicity in Southern Africa
written by Jean Davison, 1937-2015 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, originally published 1996), 290 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Based on extensive fieldwork, this study telescopes how lineage ideologies are constructed and change over time in the Zambezi River region, where matriliny and patriliny coexist. The author challenges the notion that patrilineality has subsumed matrilineal formations and demonstrates that despite colonial policies that privileged patrilineal gender relations of production -- a preference that was extended by the postcolonial states -- matrilineal relations of production have been adroitly sustained and even dominate in large parts of Malawi, northern Mozambique, and parts of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Looking specifically at the linkages between gender and ethnicity in the construction of lineage ideologies, the author offers a comparative study of women's changing status in the region and explores the implications for development policies at both the local and state levels.
- Field of Interest
- Black Studies
- Author
- Jean Davison, 1937-2015
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 1997 Taylor & Francis
- Content Type
- General reference book
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 1996
- Page Count
- 290
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Place Published / Released
- Boulder, CO
- Subject
- Black Studies, Diversity, Communities, Identities and Experiences, Family lineages, Gender, African ethnic groups, Social status, Women, Zimbabue, Moçambique, Nyasaland, Nyasaland Protectorate, Caprivi Region (until 2013), Caprivi Strip, Okavango Strip, Itenge, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambezi Region (Namibia), Namibians, Malawians, Mozambicans, Zambians, Zimbabweans
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Zimbabue, Moçambique, Nyasaland, Nyasaland Protectorate, Caprivi Region (until 2013), Caprivi Strip, Okavango Strip, Itenge
