Title An African aristocracy : rank among the Swazi / Hilda Kuper

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series African ethnographic studies of the 20th century ; volume 40 African ethnographic studies of the 20th century ; volume 40. Contents Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Title page; Copyright page; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PREFACE; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PRAISES OF SOBHUZA II1; PART I; CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION; 1. Conditions of Work and the Status of the Investigator; 2. The Scope of the Book; 3. The Approach to Time; CHAPTER II CONQUERING ARISTOCRACIES: 1. THE DLAMINI; 1. The Period of Clans; 2. Amalgamation of the Clans; 3. A Military King; CHAPTER III CONQUERING ARISTOCRACIES: 2. THE EUROPEANS; 1. Europeans enter into Swazi Political Organization; 2. The Swazi King and European Pioneers 3. Concessions4. A Period of Unrest; 5. The Period of Acceptance; 6. Conclusion; PART II; CHAPTER IV THE TEMPO OF PEASANT LIFE; 1. The Country1; 2. The Seasonal Rhythm; 3. The Homestead; 4. Royal Villages; 5. Plan of Royal Villages; 6. Rights to Land; 7. Moving of Homesteads; CHAPTER V THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL HIERARCHY; 1. The Ingwenyama and Indlovukati; 2. The Princes; 3. The Limits of Nepotism; 4. Leading Commoners; 5. The Voice of the People; 6. The Relationship between the Central and Local Administration; 7. Vassalage and Slavery; 8. The Character of Swazi Authorities CHAPTER VI RITUALIZATION OF THE KING1. Royal Villages reflect the Development of Kingship; 2. Childhood of the King; 3. Transference of the King's Blood; Polygyny as Part of the Ritualization; 4. The Health of the King; CHAPTER VII CHOICE OF THE HEIR; 1. The Danger of Friction; 2. The Council Responsible for choosing the Heir; 3. The First Wife; 4. The Main Wife; 5. Women of Little Importance; 6. Loƃola; 7. Death of a Main Wife; 8. Failure of the Main Issue; 9. Guardianship and Regency; 10. Character; CHAPTER VIII BLOOD, KINSHIP AND LOCALITY; 1. Blood and Kinship 2. Blood and Social Situations3. Heredity; 4. The Clan Hierarchy; 5. Kinship and Locality; CHAPTER IX THE AGE-CLASS SYSTEM; I. The Attitude to Age; 2. The Organization of Men's Age Classes; 3. Orientation to Warfare; 4. Labour; 5. Education; 6. The Organization of Women's Age Classes; 7. Activities; 8. The Umcwasho; CHAPTER X WEALTH IN THE PEASANT SOCIETY; 1. Technical Limitations; 2. Division of Labour; 3. Specialization; 4. Work Parties and Communal Enterprises; 5. The Distribution of Wealth; 6. Prestige and Generosity; CHAPTER XI INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY AND RITUAL 1. Recognition of Individual Variability2. Why and how People become Specialists in Ritual; 3 Specialists at Work; 4. Rulers and Specialists; 5. Sorcery, Witchcraft, and the Status; CHAPTER XII DEATH AS AN INDEX OF RANK; 1. Explanations of Death; 2. Gradation of Mortuary Ritual; 3. The Social Meaning of Death; 4. The Power of the Dead; 5. Approaching the Ancestors; CHAPTER XIII THE DRAMA OF KINGSHIP; The Actors; The Sun and the Moon; The Little Incwala; The Interim Period; 5. Fetching the Sacred; 6. The Bull; 7. The Great Day; 8. Seclusion; 9. The Fire Summary Originally published in 1947 and reprinted with a new preface in 1961, this book is based on field studies and gives an account of the social organization of the Swazi, wiith special reference to the aristocratic structure of their society and the way in which birth and rank determine social relationships and activities. The book provides a historical picture of the Swazi and the part played by them during the period of European expansion in British and Boer conflicts in South Africa. The economic structure of a society based on agriculture and the influence exerted over every aspect of social activity by the conservative and aristocratic political hierarchy is analyzed and post-War changes and their effect upon the Swazi also reviewed Notes Originally published in 1947 and reprinted in 1961 with a new preface by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 22, 2018) Subject Swazi (African people) -- Kings and rulers Kings and rulers HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa. Kings and rulers Swazi (African people) -- Kings and rulers SUBJECT Eswatini -- Kings and rulers Subject Eswatini Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429504792 0429504799 9780429997969 0429997965

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