Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 8)
Description:A study of conjugal and kin relationships in a group of urban, educated West Africans, Akan Senior Civil Servants in Accra. As well as representing a contribution to the growing body of data on marriage and family life in West Africa, the book is an exercise in methodology in which the aim has been to evolve ways of documenting and comparing two major aspects of conjugal family relationships: the division of labour, resources and power between spouses, and the extent to which the conjugal family is a functionally discrete unit in a number of domestic activity areas. This documentation and analysis leads to the examination of marital continuity and change among urban migrants from a region characterised by matrilineal descent and inheritance.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 8). To get started finding Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 8), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 8)
Description: A study of conjugal and kin relationships in a group of urban, educated West Africans, Akan Senior Civil Servants in Accra. As well as representing a contribution to the growing body of data on marriage and family life in West Africa, the book is an exercise in methodology in which the aim has been to evolve ways of documenting and comparing two major aspects of conjugal family relationships: the division of labour, resources and power between spouses, and the extent to which the conjugal family is a functionally discrete unit in a number of domestic activity areas. This documentation and analysis leads to the examination of marital continuity and change among urban migrants from a region characterised by matrilineal descent and inheritance.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 8). To get started finding Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 8), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.