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Bridewealth, Women, and Land: Social Change Among the Gusii of Kenya (Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology) - Softcover

Hakansson, Thomas

 
9789155421908: Bridewealth, Women, and Land: Social Change Among the Gusii of Kenya (Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Synopsis

The author examines the changing role of Bridewealth in structuring male-female relations focusing on resource allocation and family affairs, the marginalization of women and the prevalence of informal unions among the poor and relationships between wife-givers and wife-takers and property and land rights ( from introduction)

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