Zulu

             The kinship system is bases upon two things the dynamic principles and the resultant social phenomena in three different categories. The categories are the territorial kinship, the descent group kinship, and the terminological kinship. For the territorial kinship the main goal was for exploitation of the land coalescence of houses. This formed the segmentation of kinship groups . The individual families which emerged as the basic kinship units were organized into descent groups, mainly of minor order. The determinants of the descant rank determined the rank , status, position, descent-group headship. This was together with the primogeniture which determined the succession, inheritance, settlement of disputes. Then there was the terminological aspect which was the classificatory principle that took care of the terminology and associated domestic rights and obligations. The rights and obligations of the terminological system were and are effective within the territorial framework of the descent-group system. In this terminological aspect common reciprocal rights and obligations associated with the kinship class for similar positions. A man classifies not only his father, but all his father's brothers by the same and different mothers, under the class-term BABA. In different positions He classifies not only his father's brothers but also his mother's sisters' husbands as BABA.
             The Zulu's traditional religion was centered on ancestor worship. According to Zulu religion, the spirits of the ancestors (called Amadlozi) guided their daily lives and sacrifices therefore made to appease these spirits. They believed that the ancestors could only be seen in dreams and that soothsayers (called sangomas) which were generally females, were the only ones who had the power to communicate with them. People consulted the sangoma if their own sacrifice did not have the desired results. The sangomas were called to...

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