Gender, Lineage, and Ethnicity in Southern Africa

by Jean Davison and Jean Davison

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813327601
• ISBN13: 9780813327600
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"