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Plural marriage among the Wolof in the Gambia: with a consideration of problems of marital adjustment and patterned ways of resolving tensions
[s.n.] • [s.l.] • Published In 1953 • Pages:
By: Ames, David W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author states, in this doctoral dissertation, that his study of Wolof polygyny seeks to give attention to the entire range of cultural phenomena, focusing attention on the individual acting in various ways in concrete situations and trying to discover the attitudes, motivations, and sanctions that underlie and help to explain such behavior. The discussion begins with the principal patterns of Wolof culture and then goes to specific topics such as marriage, social stratification, status of women, family and kinship structure, household economy, property ownership, problems of individual adjustment in a polygynous household, and the impact of European culture. In 1959, the author was assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Lineages
- Clans
- Polygamy
- Kinship terminology
- Basis of marriage
- Regulation of marriage
- Nuptials
- Gender status
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Extramarital sex relations
- Division of labor by gender
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Wolof
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Gambia and Senegal
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Wason Ames
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Northwestern University, 1953
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-145)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)