factors affecting kinship ties in traditional african society

- The placenta is disposed of ceremoniously e.g. fellow Christians. Courtship gives the two families time to prepare in advance for the real marriage. Lucy P. Mair, African Marriage and Social Change, in Survey of African Marriage and Family Life. TOPIC 9:AFRICAN MORAL AND CULTURAL VALUES MEANING AND WHOLENESS OF LIFE- In the African traditional society, life is believed to originate from God. It also gives them time to find out the background of the partners e.g. 4. (New York: The Free Press, 1963.) v. Others would also be killed for crimes such as murder. - When a woman learns that she is pregnant, she becomes very happy and she becomes a special person in the community and receives special treatment. v. They are also consulted in terms of crisis e.g. The father knows that his children are not his ultimate responsibility but his sisters children. However, it is not a form of payment as is mistaken by others. 4. Challenges facing herbalists 1. 5. Marriage is no longer a must and many people decide not to marry. It cements the relationship between the two families through the exchange of gifts. 2. The basic kinship unit of Bemba society is not the individual family, but a matrilocal extended family composed of a man and his wife, their married daughters, and the latters husbands and children.24, A young Bemba couple live in the same hut with a child of pre-weaning age whom they may have. the introduction of money economy. Politics: New political systems and forms of government have changed the traditional community. v. There was a lot of fairness in the distribution of property. Professor of Sociology, Bridgewater College. 5. f. The grave is dug in a special place e.g. Download to read offline. The degree of relatedness of carer to the child, socio-economic status of fostering households, gender and age were identified as factors contributing to the well-being of children in kinship care. Some reflect the condition of weather or season at the time of birth. BIRTH Pregnancy - This is the first stage in the life of a person. Laziness was condemned or punished to ensure that people owned what they had actually worked for. Diseases such as epidemics would kill people. - In most communities the child and the mother are kept in seclusion for a number of days, depending on the sex of the baby. Edited by G.A. Today initiation is not done at particular stage in life. 6 Ibid., p.10 Note also that special attention should be paid to the distinction between polygyny being practiced widely among people of Africa and it being the dominant form of traditional family pattern. 8. -The spirit of sharing. Defines kinship and explains its importance. In the late and early 19th century, a detailed study conducted among the Baganda found that, Polygyny, the type of marriage in which the husband has plural wives, is not only the preferred but the dominant form of marriage for the Baganda.8 Commoners had two or three, chiefs had dozens, and the Kings had hundreds of wives. New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961. She organizes the disposal of the placenta (after birth). Aboriginal kinship ties, values, beliefs, identity and language are maintained by the family. - People do not have a lot of attachment to land, as there are other means of survival. - Children born out of marriage inherit their parents property. Sometimes people mistake that they are witch doctors especially Christians. It is also a taboo to marry close relative. 2. Your husband or wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law are all kinsmen related to you through marriage. Reviews the biological and sociological constants of kinship; Previews the topicsto be covered in marriage, family and larger kinship units. v. Polygamy is encouraged for sexual satisfaction for men. The following day, the naming ceremony takes place. The term 'brother' and 'sister' shows the sex of blood relations. The paternal grandfather recites many names of the clans dead ancestors. Similar customs or rules of restrictions in interaction apply between many other kin in a traditional African family. The mother and the child is no longer secluded. 4. Kinship connections are in turn based on two categories of bonds: those created by marriage and those that result from descent , which is socially recognized links between ancestors and descendants. It is kinship, which controls social relationship between people in a given community: it governs marital customs and regulations, it determines the behavior of individuals towards another. OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY AND WEALTH In the traditional African community anything that was owned is referred to as part of property or wealth. - They would stay overnight and the following day they would go to bathe in the river with cold water. There is a lot of secrecy surrounding the knowledge of herbs. Clyde., The Yao Village: a Study in the Social Structure of a Malawian Tribe. This helps to control peoples behaviors. 48 R. A. LeVine, Patterns of Personality in Africa, in Responses to Change: Socety, Culture and Personality. Introduction. - The girls would take back the sheet with a lot of ululation and rejoicing and one girl would remain behind to study the character of the man. They act as counselors and guide the people on all issues of life. These primary ties, as we may call them,4 are biologically the same in all societies,5 though, functionally, they may differ from culture to culture.6 But kinship ties do not rest within the reproductive family. 5. 7. For example honesty is expected in marriage. Headmanships of villages, court offices, ritual titles, and chieftainships are passed on in this way. - The practices vary from one community to another. 7) Many of the traditional medicine men are not willing to divulge information to others (a lot of secrecy surrounding traditional medicine) 8) Those who are educated also do not believe in the powers of diviners and mediums. Those who did not have were assisted to acquire property by the community. During the period earlier than 1940s, marriages remained completely matrilocal during the couples entire life. Characteristics of African community 1. How Names are given in the traditional African societies 1. Good, Changing Family Patterns: Sub-Saharan Africa, in World Revolution and Family Patterns. The Baganda people of Uganda provide the best illustration.7. CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN AFRICAN UNDERSTANDING Today many people talk of the way things were sometimes back many factors have affected the African culture. 6. As the African society has not been static, changes in the traditional family patterns will be briefly alluded to. 6. Those who are lazy are ridiculed. Tembo, Mwizenge S., A Sociological Analysis of the African Personality Among Zambian Students. Edited by Arthur Phillips, London: Oxford University Press, 1953. - The children born after his death were still referred to as his. They may receive messages from the spirits and ancestors. 7. v. It brings people together; relatives and friends co me together hence strengthening kinship ties. FACTORS AFFECTING THE SYSTEM 173 THE SIB: DESCENT AND EXOGAMY Kinship ties necessarily begin within the family as a pro- creational unit. 9. 8. It could also help in paying of the dowry. 11 This study was conducted in the late 1800s when inter-tribal warfare and capturing of slaves from the wars was still very common. The wishes of parents and the dead were honored. The dramatic social changes in Africa during the last three decades of political independence from European colonialism have obviously affected the traditional family. This ensured that nobody remained landless. Most of the time they suffer from old age diseases. Thorne, Barrie., and Yalom, Marilyn., (Eds.) - They suffer from psychological and emotional problems - Sometimes widows face lack of essentials such as food. 8. Boys herd goats, cows, and livestock. PRIESTS/PROPHETS OR SEERS - These are other religious specialists who play a special role as intermediaries between God and human beings. Elders iv. Boys and girls are not allowed to mix freely unless under supervision. Urbanization: Those who move away from home to towns in search of Jobs are drawn from their ancestral homes. This is because; 1 It is unavoidable. The issue to emphasize, is not so much that there are no weaknesses or shortcomings in the traditional African family, but that the Eurocentric Anglo-Saxon descriptions (that are believed to be objective and describe social phenomena as accurately as possible) eliminate, and over shadow the strengths and positive aspects that might have existed and may still exist in the African traditional family patterns. - Many people have moved and have settled in foreign lands, which are not their ancestral lands. 3. - Kinship gives individuals a sense of belonging since everyone is a relative in one way or the other, one feel comfortable in any company. MEDIUMS AND DIVINERS - Mediums are people through which ancestors and spirits communicate with the living. - There are cases of destruction of land and environment through dumping of wastes. Removal of teeth. For this reason, the paper serves only as an introduction to the application of Christian Certain countries have also adopted national dress code Revision question Discus certain aspects of African ways of worship that have been incorporated in Christian. Fourth, special observations related to pregnancy, childbirth, naming of the child, and testing the childs legitimacy as clan member.14, The existence of patriarchy and the patrilineal system among the Baganda might suggest that individual men have the most dominant social status. - Marriage was a source of wealth for the family. They are made aware of their responsibilities in adulthood. Death must have a cause. So the relationship is often based on mutual expectations and is more beneficial for both parties than confrontational and fraught with issuing of orders. 3. Second, an identifying drum beat used at ceremonies. - Misuse of sex. Some of them are (i) Rites of passage (2) Good morals (3) Participation in communal activities such as ceremonies, work, leisure activities and worship (4) Sharing of property and ideas (5) Division of labour. The author obtained his B.A in Sociology and Psychology at University of Zambia in 1976, M.A, Ph. The basic family unit among the Bemba was not the nuclear family. They were believed to have a lot of experience in life. Children are attached to and cared for by many adults, including grandparents, aunties, uncles and older siblings [29064] [28917]. Polygyny was widely practiced in Africa and it often formed the backbone of the traditional African family patterns. 9. Land was also a source of medicine in the form of herbs and minerals. The author describes the interaction between the Baganda mother and her baby as unfavorable and lacking any affection or love. He has no rights on his paternal clan. Dowry payment is no longer a communal affair but an individual affair. Dowry is important in that:- 1. (2) Active leisure: This involves the use of the physical energy. - Patriotism. This difficulty in generalization bone of diversity was already apparent to many early scholars of the African traditional family like Mair(1) and Goode(2). ii. Changes that have affected ownership of property and wealth - Women and children are allowed to own property. Actual birth - During birth there are certain rituals that are performed to introduce the chills to the immediate and extended members of the family. 7. - It is through marriage that children are born to the community. They live in one Geographical area. First, in succession and inheritance the man inherits his dead grandfather, maternal uncle, or brother. Africa's traditional religion is based on the Ubuntu philosophy, which is a Zulu word for human-ness, and was developed over many centuries in traditional African culture. The descriptions implicitly portray (to the African and Westerner) African relationships as being negative, rigid and miserable. The community disciplined those who showed traits of greed over ownership of property. Urbanization: Where people of different cultures interact with one another. In view of the poor development of social security systems outside the family, hardly anyone would wish to escape the power of kinship ties. People in the traditional African communities were afraid of acquiring property unlawfully for fear of curse. Property could be owned by community, individuals or families. African spirituality is truly holistic. - Marriage brings completeness in a person. iii. - The bathing symbolizes the beginning of a new state in life. 42 Yizenge A. Chondoka, Traditional Marriages in Zambia: A Study in Cultural History. could advice on when to go to war. The clan is linked by four factors. Having so many people in this household should not be confused with other types of large families like, ..the joint family, with its several married brothers and their families living together or the extended family, consisting of a group of married off spring living in one household under a patriarch or matriarch.11 The Baganda are also patrilocal. viii. They include;- 1. The new hair that grows shows the beginning of new life. - They are concerned with maintenance of law and order in the community. 35 3Audrey I. Richards, Bemba Marriage and Present Economic Conditions. The Rhodes-Livingstone Papers. The subject of traditional family patterns in Africa is so broad that it cannot be adequately addressed in one chapter. Prayers also connect the living and the dead. v. Marking of the body (scarification) - During initiation, the initiates are removed from the rest of the community. Therefore, they try to restrict the kinship ties. It shows an act of bravery and hardship one I s to meet in life. Indeed, such authors as Chondoka have recently found little accuracy or justification in calling this custom purchasing or buying of a wife. N.S.S.F. ii. The tie reduces cases of incest. Religion, in the African indigenous context, permeates all departments of life. This can begin as early as childhood or before the children are born. - In others the bridegroom and its party have to fight the brides party in order to get her. Bridgewater, VA 22812 Edited by G.A. Because of this wide spectrum, it is not possible to explore all aspects of the traditional African family. Phone: (540) 828-5351 - Prayers are also offered to God for protection. Through apprenticeship iv. RAIN MAKERS - Rain in traditional Africa is understood to come directly from God. - There are traditional midwives who help in delivery. The continuance of Aboriginal society is dependent on keeping Aboriginal families strong and healthy both physically and culturally. Schooling where children spend most of their time with teachers depriving them the time to be with elders. Some communities such as the Maasai still maintain their traditional way of dressing. Types of Kinship. Seclusion nowadays is not very possible because of limited time. 6. iv. iv. It is believed that after death one continues to live in the spirit world and therefore the dead relatives are to be given descent burial so that they cannot harm the living. It is believed that the dead relatives continue to live through children. Edited by Arthur Phillips, (London: Oxford University Press, 1953) p.14, 37 Lucy P. Mair, African Marriage and Social Change, in Survey of African Marriage and Family Life, Edited by Arthur Phillips, (London: Oxford University Press, 1953) p.51 Naboth M. J. Ngulube, Some Aspects of Growing Up in Zambia. It is a source of food for the people and the animals. iii. - Life also continues after death, death does not mark the end of life but is just a change of state. Children are expected to help in minor household tasks. This is brought by the following factors:- 1. Polygyny though set the tone and often determined the strength of the society and pattern of social organization of the traditional African family. Members of a community could also come together when defending the community against outside invaders. 4. It is a token of appreciation in the part of the bridegrooms people to those of the bride for the care over her. 2. Kinship relationships also determine social obligations and responsibilities, such as who has the right to inherit property or who is responsible for caring for children Box 169 5. - Through marriage, the living dead and those yet to be born are brought together. politicians. He ..also adopts the deceased persons children, calling them his and making no distinction between them and his own children.16. - Property can be owned outside ones ancestral home. 28-39. - Marriage enables one to assume leadership rules an unmarried person would not be chosen a leader. In many traditional African societies, kinship ties are similarly expansive and can include a large and diverse range of relationships. Diviners also have religious functions and perform duties of priests such as offering of sacrifice. It is said to be the basic and universal in relationships. Schapera, Isaac., Married Life in an African Tribe. Majority of women today give birth in hospitals. Problems experienced by widows and orphans - They suffer from lack of company because they feel abandoned. It gives the mans family time to prepare for the dowry payment. - They give direction on funeral ceremonies and advise on what should be done about the ceremony. They would also announce the sex of the child. 3. Wealth was seen in terms of: 1. Severing the ties of kinship is among the body sins and it is among the major sins. The traditional healers are still important today especially to those who had let down by medicine prescribed by doctors. It is a sign of belonging to the society or identification. vii. They believe iron implements attract lightning. Hotel Hope Ministries is a fully registered South African non-profit organisation established with aim of ensuring that each and every child is brought up in a safe, happy and healthy home so that they can grow up and develop into responsible and positive adults. Meanwhile, the median income of married-couple families is much higher ($72,589). These are many. The effective boundaries of the network vary for different people, over time and for different contents. Dishonoring or insulting God. ii. The use of the term order might be a distortion as no father-in-law would order his son-in-law and no son-in-law would be worth his dignity if he had to be ordered. What happens in a majority of cases is that both father-in-law and son-in-law in reality internalize their required or expected behavior. Ngulube, Naboth M. J., Some Aspects of Growing Up in Zambia, Lusaka: Nalinga Consultancy/Sol-Consult A/S Limited, 1989. 7. 2. 4. Yet in some communities when a woman is pregnant she is not allowed to talk to her husband directly. Establishing that traditional Kenyan culture and custom was supportive of high fertility in no way establishes how strongly held are these practices today or how quickly they may change as the socioeconomic basis of the real day-to-day society changes. Kinship ties are strong bonds that exist among community members. 4. As such disputes over land ownership were rare, this is because:- i. 8. 2. And this, together with neolocality, makes it nearly impossible to use kinship in structuring our social order. Death -The rites or ceremonies conducted on such occasions differ from one community to another. It is the kinship ties which determine a person's rights, responsibilities and behaviour. Traditionally no parent fixes a price for his daughter (a bride). Economic hardships that has been due to introduction of money economy. 12. Land Ownership: It is no longer communal affair but a private affair. There were clear guidelines, rules and regulations on the use and ownership of land. - Marriage brought unity in the society. Family offers a person residential identity, social status, right to property affiliation with kinship and emotional support. Therefore, the new families tend to generally live near or with the husbands parents. - Playing football - Wresting - Beer drinking - Wedding ceremonies - Riddles - Folktales - Tongue twisters Today several changes have affected leisure activities. 1967. Religious (invisible) causes of death They included: i. Social change in Africa as everywhere else is ubiquitous. Other significant strengths are that the traditional African family increased group cohesion in an otherwise harsh physical and social environment. They are experts in particular religious fields. 6. Email: mtembo@bridgewater.edu, 2023 Mwizenge S. Tembo - WordPress Theme by Kadence WP, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder: Book Review, Kinship and Clan of the Baganda of Uganda, Kinship and Clan of the Bemba of Northern Zambia, Eurocentricity and the Traditional African Family. In difficult times such as during famine, those who have share what they have with their relatives. iv. They are senior members of the community. - A lot of bleeding can lead to the death of an individual. a child born after a long period of childless marriage is called Ogwedhi among the Luo. Land ownership: The ancestral land is communally owned and nobody is allowed to sell it. Would provide medical care e.g. 3 Lucy P. Mair, African Marriage and Social Change, in Survey of African Marriage and Family Life, edited by Arthur Phillips, (London: Oxford University Press, 1953) p.1. Download Now. - They ensure the values and culture of the community is observed. PaulVMcDowell. viii. ii. 4. - Some people acquire wealth through dishonest means e.g. They are important because they have a lot of experience. Religious leaders such as bishop and pastor have replaced their duties. I. This article looks at the societies and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa in pre-modern history. This means that they are looking for death to kill it. When a girl is getting married her mothers brother must be consulted. 5. This manuscript was written for a book, which was never published, which was to be edited by Dr. Elizabeth Brooks who was a lecturer at the University of Zambia. Famous Sociologist H.M. Johnson identified six important bases of kinship which are described below: (1) Sex: Kinship relation is differentiated in each society on the basis of sex. In some communities if a woman is barren, she would bring another woman to bring children on her behalf. This background is essential to any application of Christian spirituality in Africa. 12 Stuart Queen, Robert W. Havenstein, and John B. Adams, The Polygynous Baganda Family, in The Family in Various Cultures. 6. Anthropologist Robin Fox says that the study of kinship is the study of what humans do with these basic facts of life - mating, gestation, parenthood, socialization, siblingship etc. T/F: Through slavery, forced separation of spouses, siblings, and parents from children led to a more expansive definition of kinship, and thus an extended family model took root. People nowadays migrate and buy lands in far places. But rather as curiosities that were to succumb to the superior European monogamous marriage values legitimated by Christianity. The land belonged to the whole community. Factors contributing to harmony and Mutual Responsibility in African Traditional Societies In traditional African Society, every individual is related to all. iv. MARRIAGE This is the third rite that an individual is expected to go through in life. (2) Generation: Kinship tie is established between the persons in relation to generation. 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