Book
Women and marriage in Kpelle society
Stanford University Press • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1980 • Pages:
By: Bledsoe, Caroline H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book examines the ways in which economic and political opportunities for men and women influence marriage patterns among the Kpelle. The author describes what she dubs a 'wealth in people' system, which binds people to their status superiors in ties of marriage, clientship, and filial obligation, and shows how the Kpelle manipulate the system to their own personal advantage, trying to sever their ties with superiors while at the same time attempting to keep subordinates bound to them through ties of obligation. Substantial quantitative data on Kpelle marriage and divorce is included, most of which is summarized in table in the appendix, pp. 193-202.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Basis of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Gender status
- Social relationships and groups
- Sodalities
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kpelle
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- David Sherwood ; 1984
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973-1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Liberia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Caroline H. Bledsoe
- A revision of the author's thesis, Stanford University
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212)and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78066170
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kpelle (African people)--Marriage customs and rites/Kpelle (African people)--Economic conditions/Kpelle (African people)--Social conditions