The structural articulation of generations in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3637597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malcolm Ruel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 165 |
| Pages | 51-82 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/etudesafricaines.135 |
| OpenAlex | W1507972712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
The article highlights a contrast between West African Niger-Congo and East and Southern African Bantu societies. Amongst the latter, kin-generations are sharply distinguished and alternate generations characteristically merged, whereas among the Niger-Congo peoples it is rather adjacent generations that are merged (a fact Radcliffe-Brown ignored). The difference is integral to the social structures of the two regions, between which however some continuity can be traced through the processes of the “Bantu expansion”. An explanation for the heightened awareness of generational differences is sought firstly in the effects of matrilineal kinship crosscutting patrifilial residence and secondly in the axial emergence of the people identified by C. Ehret as “Mashariki” in the Great Lakes area
Art · Articulation (sociology) · Bantu languages · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Humanities · Kinship · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Residence · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Demography · History · Law · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History
The Realm of a Rain Queen
Bwiti
Wives for cattle
The Dangerous Journey
The Tiv of Central Nigeria
The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania
Lega Culture
The Prehistorical Implications of Guthrie's Comparative Bantu. Part II
Lineage Structure, Marriage and the Family Amongst the Central Bantu
The prehistorical, implications of Guthrie's comparative Bantu Part I
Family and Kinship among the Kongo South of the Zaïre River from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
Western Bantu Expansion
The Southern Kikuyu Before 1903
A Thousand Years of East Africa
The Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia
Marriage and the Family in Rural Bukwaya, Tanzania
Joking at Death
The Dangerous Journey
Kinship and Marriage Among the Anlo Ewe
The Zambezi Goba Ancestral Cult
Social Anthropology and the 'Bantu Expansion
Youths as Elders and Infants as Ancestors
Ancestor Propitiation Ceremonies in Sukumaland, Tanganyika
Matrilineal Kinship among the Kunda
Alternate Generations among the Lele of the Kasai, South-West Congo
The Spatial Separation of Generations in Ndembu Village Structure
African reincarnation re-examined
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2018 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |