African Marriage and Social Change
African Marriage and Social Change

Author: Lucy P. Mair

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1136987304

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First Published in 1969. Building upon the author's previous work, Survey of African Marriage and Family Life, this title's findings are intended to produce for policy-makers a picture of the forces producing changes in family relationships and the instability of marriage to which legislators, civil or religious, could refer when deciding what practices to treat as permissible and what to forbid. For this reason it has laid more emphasis than is usual in works of theoretical anthropology on specific aspects of African marriage where it has been assumed that the divergence was most marked.

Transformations of African Marriage
Transformations of African Marriage

Author: David Parkin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 0429816979

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Originally published in 1987, this book shows that there is still considerable continuity in the practices and ideas of marriage in Afican against a background of social and economic change. This book discusses the diverse marriage forms in Africa and explores the different systems some of which can be understood in terms of Levi-Strauss's distinciton between complex and semi-complex structures, while others throw up questions of filiation, child custoidanship and rights secured through bridewealth transactions.

The Family in Africa
The Family in Africa

Author: Man Singh Das

Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9788185880020

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The Family in Africa is a valuable source book. It introduces the reader to the effect of industrialisation, urbanization and modernization on African society and consequent changes in family structure, marriage institution, kith relationship, sex role and lifestyle in third world countries- especially in Nigeria, somalia, tanzania, Swaizland and Libya.

Survey of African Marriage and Family Life
Survey of African Marriage and Family Life

Author: Arthur Phillips

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 042994442X

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Originally published in 1953, this study examines the effect of social change on African domestic organization and marriage. Changes to African social organization due to increased contact with the West are analyzed and accounts given as to how these changes were handled by various administrations and missionaries. The volume is contributed to by lawyers, missionaries, anthropologists and sociologists from Africa, Europe and the USA.