Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Potash, Betty, 1933-
• American Anthropological Association.
• Symposium on African Widowhood (1980 : Washington, D.C.)

Description

xxii, 309 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Widows > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Ethnology > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Ethnology
• Manners and customs
• Widows
• Witwe
• Soziale Stellung
• Kulturvergleich
• Gesellschaft
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Weduwen
• Afrikanen
• Veuves > Afrique (Sud-du-Sahara)
• Africa, Sub-Saharan > Social life and customs
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Afrika
• Subsaharisches Afrika

Note

• "Symposium on African Widowhood held during the 1980 meetings of the American Anthropological Association"--Pref.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [285]-301.

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

OCLC

• ocm12724611
• 12724611
• SCSB-632356

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library