Which Family?: Problems in the reconstruction of the history of the family as an economic and cultural unit

The Journal of African History

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 275-283

  Vaughan, Megan ^a  

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EID: 84971743937     PISSN: 00218537     EISSN: 14695138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700021988     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Jane Guyer, ‘Household and Community in African Studies’, African Studies Review, xxiv, 2-3 (1981), 87-137.
2. Undertaken as part of a larger study on ‘Women, Policy and Planning in Malawi’, commissioned by the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa.
3. Vaughan, ‘Social and Economic Change’, 147.
4. Megan Vaughan, ‘Social and Economic Change in Southern Malawi: a study of rural communities in the Shire Highlands and Upper Shire Valley from the mid-19th century to 1915’ (Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1981), 218. Some clan names were
5. Hans Coudenhove, My African Neighbours (London, 1925).
6. William Beinart, ‘The Family Youth Organization, Gangs and Politics in the Transkeian Area’. Conference on the history of the Family in Africa, S.O.A.S. September 1981.
7. What follows is based on the research of Mr Pexie Ligoya, a student of Chancellor College, University of Malawi, though I have placed my own interpretation on some of his findings: P. M. C. Ligoya, ’Chinjira between Women in Thyolo District’. Department of Sociology, Chancellor College, Student Seminar Paper, 1981.