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Title: | The Clans of Rwanda: An Historical Hypothesis |
Author: | Newbury, David S. |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 389-403 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Rwanda |
Subjects: | kinship Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1158430 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1980-050-00-000028 |
Abstract: | The concept of clan as a historical category in the Rwandan context is reassessed. In order to explain apparent contradictions in the 'empirical' data, the concepts of clan status in Rwanda must be re-examined, and in particular, the changes over time in these concepts must be accounted for. The author argues that clan changes were not simply a result of individuals moving from on clan to another, or members of one clan dispersing over the land, but also a result of changes in the very conceptual categories from which clan identities derived. This is not to say that clans changed randomly but neither were they the static, enduring primordial feature of Rwandan social structures they are often made out to be. Map, notes, ref., tab., French sum. |