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| Title: | Matrilineal descent: the Plateau Tonga |
| Author: | Mair, L. |
| Book title: | African societies |
| Year: | 1974 |
| Pages: | 82-94 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Zambia |
| Subjects: | Tonga (Zambia, Zimbabwe) matriarchy |
| Abstract: | Based on: 'Marriage and the family among the plateau Tonga', E. Colson (1958); and 'The Plateau Tonga; social and religious studies', E. Colson, (1962). The Tonga live in the Southern Province of Zambia. They are farmers that have been drawn into the market economy. This chapter discusses their clan organization, ritual authority and marriage and property. The Tonga, unlike most matrillineal people have much valuable property and the rules of property see to it that a man his wife-and-her children are at odds about the disposal of the product of their common labour. |