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School fees and the marriage process for Mende girls in Sierra Leone
Beyond the sex : new directions in the anthropology of gender • Philadelphia • Published In 1990 • Pages: 283-309
By: Bledsoe, Caroline H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This discusses dynamics of co-wife relations among polygamous Mande households. It argues that co-wife relations are characterized by apparent congeniality and equality mostly created by legal and economic necessities. When examined closely, however, they are fraught with inequality and suppressed tensions particularly over children's education which can erupt in pitched battles or witchcraft accusations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Polygamy
- Family relationships
- Gender status
- Education system
- Students
- Competition
- Division of labor by gender
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Inheritance
- Social relationships and groups
- Kin relationships
- Sorcery
- Labor supply and employment
- Accumulation of wealth
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mende
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980-1990
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1980-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sierra Leone
- NotesAdditional notes
- Caroline Bledsoe
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-309)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90030497
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mende (African people)