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Title: | Traditional fertility regulation and child-spacing practices: a Tanzanian matrilineal tradition of child spacing |
Author: | Wembah-Rashid, J.A.R. |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | African Anthropology (ISSN 1024-0969) |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 49-58 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | family planning fertility Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Health and Nutrition Fertility and Infertility Cultural Roles Marital Relations and Nuptiality Family Planning and Contraception |
Abstract: | The matrilineal Bantu peoples of eastern Tanzania attach great importance to fertility. Beliefs, customs and practices related to the acquisition, cultivation, generation and maintenance of fertility were, and to a certain extent still are, part and parcel of the enculturation process of both males and females. The author describes the customs, beliefs and practices related to fertility regulation and child spacing among the matrilineal Bantu peoples of eastern Tanzania, known as the Rufiji-Ruvuma and Rufiji-Pangani language speakers. Included in the former group are the Wayao, Wanakonde, Wamakua, Wamwera and Wamatumbi. The latter group includes the Wandegereko, Wazaramo, Wakwere, Waluguru, Wazigua and Wabondei. The author has conducted research among these peoples intermittently from 1966 to the present. Bibliogr., sum. |