essay
Kinship and cocoa farming in Ghana
female and male in west africa • London • Published In 1983 • Pages: 169-178
By: Okali, Christine.
Abstract
In this article, Okali finds that matrilineal kinship ideology and practice continue to play a significant role in the establishment of new cocoa farms by migrant families. It is argued that kinship would play less of a role, and contractual relationships more of one, in the productive relations of the frontier. However, Okali argues that family and lineage members continue to help each other out--making the whole project feasible in the first place--and maintain the customary exchanges between spouses, parents and children, and among lineage members. However exchanges and inheritance are more circumscribed on the frontier: limited to the family and lineage members who actually worked to help open and support the farm.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Technical Personnel
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field Date
- 1971-1973
- Coverage Date
- 1940-1980
- Coverage Place
- Ashanti; Akokoaso and Dominase, Ghana
- Notes
- Christine Okali
- For bibliographical references see document 56: Anonymous
- LCCN
- 82020767
- LCSH
- Akan (African people)