Growing Up Sexually

 

 

SONJO (Bantu; Tanzania)

 

Index →Africa→Tanzania → Sonjo

 

Also featured: Wanguru, Turu, Kwere, Shambala, Ngindo, Chagga, Bena, Nyamwezi, Luguru, Kaguru, Sukuma, Subiya, Ngulu, Hehe, Barabaig, Nyakyusa, Gogo, Baraguyu, Hadza; ®Kuria, ®Masai

 

According to Gray[1], Sonjo girls are usually betrothed during childhood, with a large percentage of the bride-price paid to the girl’s family at that time.

 

Additional refs:

 

  • Robert F. Gray, The Sonjo of Tanganyika: An Anthropological Study on an Irrigation-based Society. OxfordUniversity Press, Oxford, 1963

 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. Volume I. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Jun 2005

 


[1] Gray, Robert F., Sonjo Bride-Price and the Question of African “Wife Purchase.”American Anthropologist   February, 1960   Vol. 62(1): 34-57