Maturity and marriage among the Northern Basukuma of Tanganyika
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5439842 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R E S Tanner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 123-133 |
| Publication date | 1955-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0184 • E-ISSN: 1469-2872 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00020185508706959 |
| OpenAlex | W2012507157 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
SYNOPSIS The growing up of boys and girls is without restrictions on their association or activities, provided that their conduct is reasonably restrained. The idea of marriage is associated with the desire for social security and stability and regularity in their lives. The betrothal is a formalixed relationship for which there is freedom of choice for both man and woman, and in which the latter has clear opportunities for repudiating the arrangement. Bride‐price is essential to, or an aim in, all arrangements : It is accompanied by formal discussions and feasting, and a wide range of bargaining techniques, while the passage of bride‐price cattle from one family to another is the occasion for ritual and excitement. There is little pressure to pay off debts of uncompleted bride‐price. The wedding is attended by friends of the bride and groom and few adults. The bride offers formalized resistance to consummation of the marriage, and thereafter a bull of defloration is killed. The marriage of additional wives follows the same procedure, but is accompanied by formal gifts to senior wives. The marriage of a woman who has had children by previous marriage, and that of a widow or widower, is accompanied by ceremonial cleansing of the parties. Marriages may be effected by either party running off to the house of the other, and by elopement. There exists also a type common‐law marriage, cf increasing popularity in present‐Jay society, and a form of marriage contracted in order to get food in time of famine. The avoidance between the bride and groom and their in‐laws is broken down by degrees in the years after the marriage
Bride · Consummation · Debt · Demographic economics · Economics · Marriage market · Political science · Sociology · Virginity test · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2006 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |