International African Seminar, Transformation of African Marriage, Customary Models in a New Setting, Nairobi, 10-13 September 1984, Silver Springs Hotel
Subtitle: [papers]
By: International African Institute with Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi.
Contributors: International African Institute.; University of Nairobi. Institute of African Studies.
Publisher: International African Institute; Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi
Published: 1984
Place of publication: [London]; [Nairobi]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Marriage -- Africa -- Congresses; Marriage customs and rites -- Africa -- Congresses; Kinship -- Africa -- Congresses; Family -- Africa -- Congresses; Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: [1] Changing themes in the analysis of African marriage / Philip Burnham; title: [2] On dit la polygamie est morte : vive la polygamie! / Rémi Clignet; title: [3] "L'antilope accouche toujours de l'éléphant : devinette Mkako ... / E. Copet-Rougier; title: [4] Valeurs sociales et symboliques de l'initiation feminine KNE chez les Guro de Cote d'Ivoire / Ariane Deluz; title: [5] L'instabilité conjugale et ses consequences dans la société Swahili de Lamu, Kenya / Françoise Le Guennec-Coppens; title: [6] "Outside wives" and "inside wives" in Nigeria / by Wambui Wa Karanja; title: [7] Laughter at marriage : subversion in performance / by Ivan Karp; title: [8] Aspects of change in bridewealth among the Iteso of Kenya / by Nobuhiro Nagashima; title: [9] The old and the new in East African elite marriages / Christine Obbo; title: [10] Lineage ideology, fertility, and population control in Africa / by John U. Ogbu and Marcellina A. Ogbu; title: [11] Symbolique des rapports entre les femmes et les hommes dans les cultes de possession de type Tromba a Madagascar / S.A. Ramamonjisoa; title: [12] Polygamy and the household economy in a fishing village in Sierra Leone / Filomina Chioma Steady; title: [13] Changements liés à l'économie at à l'idéologie chez les pasteurs Zaghawa (Tchad-Soudan) / Marie-José Tubiana; title: [14] The effects of monetization of marriage payments in a patrilineal descent society / by Harriet Ngubane.