Transformations Of African Marriage
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Transformations Of African Marriage
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Author : David Parkin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-03
Transformations Of African Marriage written by David Parkin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Originally published in 1987, this book shows that there is still considerable continuity in the practices and ideas of marriage in Afican against a background of social and economic change. This book discusses the diverse marriage forms in Africa and explores the different systems some of which can be understood in terms of Levi-Strauss's distinciton between complex and semi-complex structures, while others throw up questions of filiation, child custoidanship and rights secured through bridewealth transactions.
Transformations Of African Marriage
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Author : David Parkin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-03
Transformations Of African Marriage written by David Parkin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Originally published in 1987, this book shows that there is still considerable continuity in the practices and ideas of marriage in Afican against a background of social and economic change. This book discusses the diverse marriage forms in Africa and explores the different systems some of which can be understood in terms of Levi-Strauss's distinciton between complex and semi-complex structures, while others throw up questions of filiation, child custoidanship and rights secured through bridewealth transactions.
African Marriage And Social Change
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Author : Lucy Mair
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1969
African Marriage And Social Change written by Lucy Mair and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with History categories.
First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Marry Me In Africa
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Author : E. Kofi Agorsah
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-09-17
Marry Me In Africa written by E. Kofi Agorsah and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Marry Me in Africa is an invitation to discuss approaches and processes in African marriage ritual. As one crucial institution in African culture, marriage in its traditional African definition has helped many of the continents cultures maintain a sense of community and identity. This book invites especially students and researchers into exchanges on some African marriage traditions and their roles in African societies. It concerns those aspects that fascinate me and many other Africans that we believe will interest people in the New World, particularly the Caribbean. Researchers of the African Diaspora might want to use some of the marriage practices for reconstructing models for analysis and interpretation of the formation and transformation of the African heritage in the Diaspora. Marry Me in Africa is particularly useful for scholars not familiar with the different cultural practices among African societies, their sources of identity and diversity, and the implications of these for understanding African social systems. This book will be a useful companion for other scholars who know about some of the cultural practices but are unable to identify exactly their relationship to specific ethnic groups, traditional concepts, social, political, economic, technological, and other practices that have constituted the patterns of cultural behavior among African societies through marriage. Individual or local cultural traditions and practices are presented within the context of the general African cultural heritage, leading to cross-cultural comparison and generalizations. The convergence of traditional marriage patterns and continuities in specific aspects of traditional values and behavior of various societies are examined over the common-ground sense of community among Africans that may not be the same today as in the past. For this reason this book takes the liberty to discuss present manifestations of a transformed past in the present.
African Marriage And Social Change
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Author : Lucy P. Mair
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-26
African Marriage And Social Change written by Lucy P. Mair and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with History categories.
First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Transformation Of African Christianity
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Author : Sunday Jide Komolafe
language : en
Publisher: Langham Monographs
Release Date : 2013-02-14
The Transformation Of African Christianity written by Sunday Jide Komolafe and has been published by Langham Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-14 with Religion categories.
The explosion of the church in Nigeria is phenomenal, with a forward momentum that is as remarkable as the missionary optimism of the first century Church. The history reveals a tightly woven narrative of the process of beginnings, growth, and change.
States Of Marriage
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Author : Emily S. Burrill
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-30
States Of Marriage written by Emily S. Burrill and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Social Science categories.
States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. The book is a modern history of the ideological debates surrounding the meaning of marriage, as well as the associated legal and sociopolitical practices in colonial and postcolonial Mali. It is also the first to use declassified court records regarding colonialist attempts to classify and categorize traditional marriage conventions in the southern region of the country. In French Sudan, as elsewhere in colonial Africa, the first stage of marriage reform consisted of efforts to codify African marriages, bridewealth transfers, and divorce proceedings in public records, rendering these social arrangements “legible” to the colonial administration. Once this essential legibility was achieved, other, more forceful interventions to control and reframe marriage became possible. This second stage of marriage reform can be traced through transformations in and by the colonial court system, African engagements with state-making processes, and formations of “gender justice.” The latter refers to gender-based notions of justice and legal rights, typically as defined by governing and administrative bodies as well as by socioxadpolitical communities. Gender justice went through a period of favoring the rights of women, to a period of favoring patriarchs, to a period of emphasizing the power of the individual—but all within the context of a paternalistic and restrictive colonial state.
African Marriage And Social Change
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Author : Lucy Philip Mair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
African Marriage And Social Change written by Lucy Philip Mair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
The Decline Of Marriage In Namibia
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Author : Julia Pauli
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2019-02-28
The Decline Of Marriage In Namibia written by Julia Pauli and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Social Science categories.
In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of marriage when only few marry. Although marriage rates have dropped sharply, the value of weddings and marriages has not. To marry has become an indicator of upper-class status that less affluent people aspire to. Using the appropriation of marriage by a rural Namibian elite as a case study, the book tells the entwined stories of class formation and marriage decline in post-apartheid Namibia.
Introduction To Gender Studies In Eastern And Southern Africa
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Author : James Etim
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-28
Introduction To Gender Studies In Eastern And Southern Africa written by James Etim and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-28 with Education categories.
Africa has witnessed massive changes in the last fifty years – from independence through structural adjustment, rule by military juntas in several countries and to a period now where the focus is on how best to prioritize their needs based on resources, national goals and human potential. There is general agreement that human capital is important in economic growth and development. There is always the need to ensure that resources and human capital are used appropriately to advance development. Gender disparities, whether in treatment, access to resources, resource utilization and the law, may in themselves retard or slow down development. Resources and human potential in all societies include how best to ensure there is no gender disparity and to fully tap the resources inherent in women for personal, social and national development. Beginning with the women’s suffrage movement, there has been the push to encourage gender equality worldwide. The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 embodies the commitment of the international community to implement policies that will enhance the political, social, economic, educational empowerment of women. This book highlights the issues affecting women in Eastern and Southern Africa – what role does custom and patriarchy play in gender disparities in education, access to health, problems in the workplace and family relationships? How have women writers in the last twenty years presented the issues of patriarchy, women’s rights, globalism and women’s holistic development? What are recent developments that have helped improve the situation for some women? These are some of the issues that are covered in this book. The thesis of this book is that there have been policies and strategies developed that have worked to empower women. However, vestiges of sexism, gender disparities in several fields still remain and traditions/customs and patriarchy have aided in still keeping women down.div“/div>