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Title:Mambila Demography from Archival Sources
Authors:Zeitlyn, DavidISNI
Bagg, JanetISNI
Year:2000
Periodical:History in Africa
Volume:27
Pages:423-436
Language:English
Geographic term:Cameroon
Subjects:Mambila
population
kinship
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
Bibliography/Research
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172123
Abstract:This paper provides a first report of a study of the population of Somié, a Mambila village in Cameroon, which explores ways of linking microdemographic analysis and the results of anthropological research. In an area where sister exchange marriage was practised, repeated marriages give rise to complex genealogies whose connection to demographic factors has not been analysed. By combining the details of kinship and residence, gathered during field research over a period of ten years, with the statistics of births and deaths from census results and archival materials from 1950 onwards, it is possible to assess the effects of genealogical and residence factors on fertility and mortality. Conversely, it becomes possible to examine the effects of demographic factors on the genealogical basis of village life. The census of 1990 was used as a benchmark since it is the most complete of all the censuses. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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