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Widows in African societies : choices and constraints / edited by Betty Potash.

Title: Widows in African societies : choices and constraints / edited by Betty Potash.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1986.
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Description

xxii, 309 pages; 23 cm

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Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

"Symposium on African Widowhood held during the 1980 meetings of the American Anthropological Association"--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index.

Contents

Widows in Africa : an introduction / Betty Potash (43 p.). -- Wives of the grave : widows in a rural Luo community / Betty Potash (22 p.). -- Nandi widows / Regina Smith Oboler (18 p.). -- Some East African widows / Christine Obbo (23 p.). -- Widows and divorced women in Swahili society / Pamela Landberg (24 p.). -- Widows in Hausa society : ritual phase or social status? / Enid Schildkrout (22 p.). -- Will she or won't she? Choice and Dukawa widows / Frank A Salamone (22 p.). -- Where to live? : widows' choices among the Rukuba / Jean-Claude Muller (18 p.). -- Beti widow inheritance and marriage law : a social history / Jane I Guyer (27 p.). -- Widow among the matrilineal Akan of southern Ghana / Dorothy Dee Vellenga (21 p.). -- Contradictions, constraints, and choices : widow remarriage among the Baule of Ivory Coast / Mona Etienne (44 p.).

ISBN

0804712999
9780804712996

LCCN

85026054

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Columbia University Libraries