Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and diagrams
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Descent categories and local ties in traditional Toka society
- 2 Technological development and the restructuring of the relations of production
- 3 Changing norms of inheritance
- 4 The structure of local groups
- 5 The changing concept of the basimukowa
- 6 Mukowa and ritual
- 7 The role of the mukowa in succession
- 8 The role of the mukowa in inheritance
- 9 Mukowa: representational and operational models
- 10 Norms as a strategic resource
- Appendix 1 Village fission in Guta
- Appendix 2 Aspects of individual mobility in Ngwezi
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology
Appendix 1 - Village fission in Guta
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and diagrams
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Descent categories and local ties in traditional Toka society
- 2 Technological development and the restructuring of the relations of production
- 3 Changing norms of inheritance
- 4 The structure of local groups
- 5 The changing concept of the basimukowa
- 6 Mukowa and ritual
- 7 The role of the mukowa in succession
- 8 The role of the mukowa in inheritance
- 9 Mukowa: representational and operational models
- 10 Norms as a strategic resource
- Appendix 1 Village fission in Guta
- Appendix 2 Aspects of individual mobility in Ngwezi
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology
Summary
The emergence of the other two villages in Guta illustrates further the principles of village fission discussed in Chapter 1.
Kataba (Diagram 3)
Kataba's mother's brother, Kamela (G2), was dead in 1935 when Kamenyani (H15) moved his village from Guta to Nyawa. Kataba (H5) was thus the senior male member of Mukasilumbe's (F1) mukowa. Like Kamenyani (H15) and Matongo (H12), Kataba (H5) is a son of Lunga's sister's daughter. When Kamenyani (H15) succeeded to Lunga's headmanship, Kataba (H5) exercised his right to become a village headman by forming a village of his own; if he had stayed in the village of which Matongo (H12) became a headman, this would have amounted to recognising Kamenyani's and Matongo's right to headmanship and forfeiting his own. Unlike Matongo (H12), however, Kataba (H5) did not command the wide support of his basimukowa and their children nor the support of his own children. Of the members of his own mukowa, he attracted only his uterine sister, Bene (H3), to his own village. Nowadays Bene's son, Siyamonga (I4), and the latter's son, Alec (J2), live with their families in Kataba's village.
Most of the village inhabitants are members of the Muntanga clan. They are kinsmen of Kataba's first wife, Muntemba (I5), who is herself a member of this clan, and they were attracted to the village because of their relationship to her.
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- Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal SocietyDescent, Succession and Inheritance among the Toka of Zambia, pp. 211 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986