Cognitive Archaeology by David Whitley;Johannes Loubser;Gavin Whitelaw;

Author:David Whitley;Johannes Loubser;Gavin Whitelaw;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Summary

The evidence suggests that Kalundu agriculturists maintained an ideology of patrilineal descent, coupled with a concern for homestead unity and a desire for agnatic continuity. They practiced non-kin marriage, but a high exchange value for women, relative to average cattle holdings, resulted in extensive lateral networks of marital exchange and relationships between cattle-linked siblings that presented a structural challenge to the authority of homestead heads (husbands especially, in this context, but the interests of a wife and her cattle-linked brother potentially also opposed those of their father). There were, in effect, two opposing forces: one vertical (descent) and the other horizontal (marriage). The tension between them contributed significantly to the making of the rich Kalundu material culture.

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