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Authors: Mayer, Philip , Mayer, Iona
Date: 1972
Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Xhosa (African people) -- Youth , Rural youth -- South Africa -- Ciskei , Rural youth -- South Africa -- Transkei , Rural youth -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Youth -- South Africa -- Conduct of life , Ethnology -- South Africa
Language: English , Xhosa
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:554 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020611
Description: This report presents the results of intensive fieldwork which I have undertaken in the Ciskei and Transkei since 1961, with the generous support and co-operation of the Human Sciences Research Council (formerly National Council for Social Research), in conjunction with the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University. The report has been divided into Part I, on the Red Xhosa, and Part II, on 'non-Red' and non-Xhosa peoples of the same region. The fieldwork was undertaken mainly during my academic vacation I spent many months altogether living in a caravan in the rural locations of Tshabo, Khalana, Shixini and Mabaleni, observing Red Xhosa youth activities at first hand. Later, the fieldwork for Part II was carried on largely by my assistants (who by then were well experienced), under my close supervision.
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Authors: Mayer, Iona
Date: 1966
Subjects: Gusii (African people) -- Kinship
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
Identifier: vital:2119 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012846
Description: This thesis has two aims. In Part I the aim is to present some unpublished field material on Gusii kinship, particularly on domestic relations between the generations and the sexes. In Part II the aim is to clarify a theoretical model of 'relation by kinship', and of ' kinship categories" and 'classificntion', based on an examination of the ways in which Gusii use kinship terms. Intro., p. 1.
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Date Issued: 1966

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