Agrarian Change in Tanzania, Issues 1-2 |
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Page 22
... bridewealth in order to marry . According to elderly informants in Ikelu village , bridewealth in the early part of this century was only two hoes mostly obtained within Ubena itself or from Upangwa in exchange for salt . Later the ...
... bridewealth in order to marry . According to elderly informants in Ikelu village , bridewealth in the early part of this century was only two hoes mostly obtained within Ubena itself or from Upangwa in exchange for salt . Later the ...
Page 113
... bridewealth normally require him to join them in their lineage rituals after the birth of his first son . Under the mgoha institution , some older men use most , if not all , their economic resources to marry their sons . The ability to ...
... bridewealth normally require him to join them in their lineage rituals after the birth of his first son . Under the mgoha institution , some older men use most , if not all , their economic resources to marry their sons . The ability to ...
Page 117
... bridewealth . Bridewealth in Bena society , as in other patrilineal African societies , seals relations between in - laws by legitimating marriages . Cattle also establish husband's rights over his wife's procreative powers and children ...
... bridewealth . Bridewealth in Bena society , as in other patrilineal African societies , seals relations between in - laws by legitimating marriages . Cattle also establish husband's rights over his wife's procreative powers and children ...
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acreages acres African agricultural allocated beer Bena bridewealth cash crop cattle cell leaders Chama Cha Mapinduzi Chapter chemical fertilisers Church co-operative coffee colonial commercial farmers committee communal farm Dar es Salaam district administration economic liberalisation elders enterprises farm inputs father fertilisers fields grain Hehe hire homestead plots household farming household members Ikelu Ikelu village income individuals inheritance Iringa region labour labour strength lineage rituals livestock maendeleo maize Makambako married milling machines Moreover Mtwango mutual aid groups neighbours Ngoni Njombe district nucleated villages Nyakyusa Nyamwezi Nyerere officials organisation oxen plough plural political system polygynously primary school primary society private traders production pyrethrum rent rural Salaam season secretary sell shillings social southern highlands strategies structure subsistence Tanganyika TANU Tanzania tend tractor trade traditional Ubena ujamaa Usangu village chairman village government village leaders village office villages in Njombe villagisation Vipi weeding witchcraft wives women