Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants

Christine Oppong

Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
8 January 2009
Pages
224
ISBN
9780521093187

Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants

Christine Oppong

A study of conjugal and kin relationships in a group of urban, educated West Africans, Akan Senior Civil Servants in Accra. As well as representing a contribution to the growing body of data on marriage and family life in West Africa, the book is an exercise in methodology in which the aim has been to evolve ways of documenting and comparing two major aspects of conjugal family relationships: the division of labour, resources and power between spouses, and the extent to which the conjugal family is a functionally discrete unit in a number of domestic activity areas. This documentation and analysis leads to the examination of marital continuity and change among urban migrants from a region characterised by matrilineal descent and inheritance.

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