Matriliny patriliny and wealth flow variations in rural Malawi.
Matriliny patriliny and wealth flow variations in rural Malawi.
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马拉维农村的母系父系和财富流动变化。
DOI：
10.4314/asr.v6i2.23215
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
6
通讯作者：
H. Doctor
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作者：
M. Mtika;H. Doctor
关于非洲亲属政治经济的文献表明，在母系制下，财富流动将偏向母系，因为孩子们将更多地与母亲而不是父亲的亲属进行转移。在父权制下，情况正好相反。我们利用对马拉维农村1257名受访者的抽样调查数据来探索这些命题，其中29%的受访者来自母系为主的民族群体，36%来自从母系向父系转变的民族群体，35%来自父系民族群体。对来自母系族群的18名受访者进行了定性访谈，其中20名来自转型族群，18名来自父系族群。结果显示几乎没有证据支持这些命题。我们认为，多年来渗透到马拉维农村地区的生产和消费日益私有化，导致马拉维农村人出现了一些个人主义倾向，削弱了母系和父系对人们财富转移行为的影响。(作者)
Literature on African kinship political economies suggest that under matriliny wealth flow would be biased towards a matrilineal line in that children would engage in transfers with their maternal more than their paternal relatives. Under patriliny the reverse would be the case. We explore these propositions using data from a sample survey of 1257 respondents in rural Malawi 29 percent of whom were from a predominantly matrilineal ethnic group 36 percent were from an ethnic group that is transforming from matrilineal to patrilineal practices and 35 percent were from a patrilineal ethnic group. These data were complemented by qualitative interviews of 18 respondents from the matrilineal ethnic group 20 from the transforming group and 18 from the patrilineal group. Results reveal little evidence to support the propositions. We think that the increasing privatisation of production and consumption that has over the years penetrated rural Malawi has led to some individualistic tendencies among rural Malawians and weakened both matrilineal and patrilineal influence on peoples wealth transfer behaviours. (authors)