A01=Lucy P. Mair
Adamawa Province
Author_Lucy P. Mair
Bamenda Province
Broken Hill
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Cattle Payment
Compound Head
Dead Man
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Kinsman
Marriage Cattle
Marriage Payments
Matrilineal Peoples
Mother's Brother
Mother’s Brother
Native Courts
North Eastern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia
Nuba Hills
Nuba Tribes
Patrilineal Peoples
Plateau Tonga
Southern Dahomey
Supernatural Punishment
Van Reeth
Van Wing
Wife's Village
Wife’s Village
Young Men
Zaria Province
Product details
- ISBN 9780714619088
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1969
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 1969. Building upon the author's previous work, Survey of African Marriage and Family Life, this title's findings are intended to produce for policy-makers a picture of the forces producing changes in family relationships and the instability of marriage to which legislators, civil or religious, could refer when deciding what practices to treat as permissible and what to forbid. For this reason it has laid more emphasis than is usual in works of theoretical anthropology on specific aspects of African marriage where it has been assumed that the divergence was most marked.
Neville Rubin, Eugene Cotran School of Oriental and African Studies, London
