Women creating patrilyny : gender and environment in West Africa /
Smedley, Audrey.
Walnut Creek, CA ; Oxford : AltaMira Press,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-271) and index.
Introduction -- The Birom People and their history -- Ecological features of the precolonial past -- Du Village : organization of space and people -- The ecological basis of the kin group -- The life cycle of the kin group -- Ritual and the distribution of public power -- Village wards and other forms of social control -- Gender, marriage,and the establishment of the domestic unit.
Women, Birom
Women, Birom
Women, Birom
Patrilineal kinship
Sex role