Transformations of African marriage / edited by David Parkin and David Nyamwaya
1987, First Edition. Manchester, UK ; Wolfeboro, NH, USA : Manchester University Press for the International African Institute. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #393130
ISBN: 0719023254
Physical description: xiv, 350 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes: English and French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English and French text.
Contents: Changing themes in the analysis of African marriage / Philip Burnham -- Sens et permanence du mariage 'arabe' dans la societé maure / Pierre Bonte -- Étude de la transformation du mariage chez les Mkako du Cameroun / Elisabeth Copet-Rougier -- Mariages zaghawa : les changements liés a l'économie et à l'ideologie / Marie-José Tubiana -- Social and symbolic values of feminine kne initiation among the Guro of the Ivory Coast / Ariane Deluz -- Laughter at marriage : subversion in performance / Ivan Karp -- Symbolique des rapports entre les femmes et les hommes dans les cultes de possession de type tromba à Madagascar / Suzy-Andrée Ramamonjisoa -- The consequences for women of marriage payments in a society with patrilineal descent / Harriet Ngubane -- Aspects of change in bridewealth among the Iteso of Kenya / Nobuhiro Nagashima -- On dit que la polygamie est morte : vive la polygamie! / Rémi Clignet -- Polygamy and the household economy in a fishing village in Sierra Leone / Filomina Chioma Steady -- L'instabilité conjugale et ses conséquences dans la societé swahili de Lamu (Kenya) / Françoise Le Guennec-Coppens -- 'Outside wives' and 'inside wives' in Nigeria : a study of changing perceptions in marriage / Wambui Wa Karanja -- The old and the new in East African elite marriages / Christine Obbo -- The African or customary marriage in Kenyan law today / Gibson Kamau Kuria -- The changing role of women and their contributions to the domestic economy in Cameroon / Paul N. Nkwi -- Transformations of southern Tanzanian marriages / Rupert R. Moser -- Understanding African marriage : towards a convergence of literature and sociology / Isidore Okpewho. Subjects: Marriage customs and rites Africa ; Congresses.
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Mariage Rites et cérémonies. Mariage.
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Marriage customs and rites. Marriage Africa.
Marriage Africa. Marriage customs and rites Africa.
Marriage customs and rites Africa. Marriage customs and rites Africa ; Congresses. Marriage Africa ; Congresses.
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