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| Title: | Religion, kinship, and economy in Luapula, Zambia |
| Author: | Poewe, Karla O. |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Pages: | 265 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies |
| City of publisher: | Lewiston, NY |
| Publisher: | Edwin Mellen Press |
| ISBN: | 0889461902 |
| Geographic term: | Zambia |
| Subjects: | Jehovah's Witnesses economic anthropology matriarchy |
| Abstract: | The main thesis of this book is that organizational uncertainties, specifically the human aches and pains of a now confusing family and kinship structure, are as much a hindrance to economic development as is lack of money and technology. Research was carried out in the 1970s in the Luapula Province of Zambia. The chapters on kinship and economic activities describe why it is problematic for matrilineally related Zambians to coordinate family or other labour, to plan future investment, and to overcome a productive individualism. Important to the main thesis are several other themes. Among them is the role of churches, especially its more evangelical and sectarian versions, particularly Jehovah's Witnesses. In preparing people for a future theocratic society, the Jehova's Witnesses restructure individual lives and, indirectly, the local economy and communities. This book is, further, both pre- and post-feminist. It is pre-feminist because most of the data were gathered and analysed before feminist anthropology existed. It is post-feminist because it is equally concerned with both sexes. The author describes the insoluble conflicts between the sexes as men and women control different resources and favour different ideologies. |