Marriage in Maradi : gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 1900-1989
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Marriage in Maradi : gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 1900-1989
（Social history of Africa）
Heinemann , J. Currey, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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Heinemann : paper : ISBN 9780435074135
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Women's contradictory contributions to social and economic change in the twentieth century can be seen in their improvisations upon the seemingly fixed "traditions" surrounding marriage in Maradi. Cooper finds that women in Maradi have simultaneously advanced their individual interests and undermined protections to women as a whole by redefining the role of "wife" in agriculture, by adopting seclusion in order to find leisure time for trade, by emphasizing hierarchy among wives, unmarried women, and girls, and by transforming the material component in marriage exchange.
With the growth of international trade, state employment, and Islamic norms, competing ideals for marriage and the role of women have emerged. The French colonial administration, the independent government of Niger, and individual men have all attempted to redefine local practices in an effort to control women. Both men and women in the region are manipulating, negotiating, and reinterpreting marriage, wedding exchange, and nonmarriage in response to options created by a shifting political economy.
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Heinemann : cloth : ISBN 9780435074142
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Cloth Edition. Women's contradictory contributions to social and economic change in the twentieth century can be seen in their improvisations upon the seemingly fixed traditions surrounding marriage in Maradi.
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J. Currey : paper : ISBN 9780852556276
Description
A gendered social history of marriage.
This work explores how both men and women adapted, negotiated and contested their rights and duties in marriage during a period of socio-political upheaval in 20th-century Niger, a period which saw the advent and demise of colonial rule, the abolition of slavery and the rise of Islam.
Table of Contents
- Unpredictable interventions - emancipating slaves and regulating marriage
- mediating marriage - state intrusion and local dispute settlement
- negotiating land and labour in a shifting agricultural economy
- from migrant to Mai Gida
- women's worth and wedding gift exchange
- wealth and learning - discourses on prosperity and domesticity
- coping with conflicting models - nurturing ties, maintaining ambiguity, and opting out
- of prostitutes - the public and politics.
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J. Currey : cloth : ISBN 9780852556771
Description
This work explores how both men and women adapted, negotiated and contested their rights and duties in marriage during a period of socio-political upheaval in 20th-century Niger, a period which saw the advent and demise of colonial rule, the abolition of slavery and the rise of Islam.
Table of Contents
- Unpredictable interventions - emancipating slaves and regulating marriage
- mediating marriage - state intrusion and local dispute settlement
- negotiating land and labour in a shifting agricultural economy
- from migrant to Mai Gida
- women's worth and wedding gift exchange
- wealth and learning - discourses on prosperity and domesticity
- coping with conflicting models - nurturing ties, maintaining ambiguity, and opting out
- of prostitutes - the public and politics.
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