Enduring Polygamy ? Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis
Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis
Series: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts;
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Product details:
- Publisher MW ? Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 14 April 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781978831131
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 230x153x16 mm
- Weight 334 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 bw, 5 color images; 6 tables 495
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Short description:
Enduring Polygamy explores sweeping social changes in urban Africa through the lens of plural marriage. The book offers insights into gender dynamics and the cultural, economic, and political factors affecting how, when, and why people marry. The bookoffers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested but resilient form of marriage.
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Why hasn?t polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa?s fastest-growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as a lens through which to survey sweeping changes in urban life, it offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the customs, gender norms and hierarchies, kinship structures, and laws affecting marriage, and situates polygamy within structures of inequality that shape marital options, especially for young Malian women. Through an approach of cultural relativism, the book offers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested form of marriage. Without shying away from questions of patriarchy and women?s oppression, it presents polygamy from the everyday vantage points of Bamako residents themselves, allowing readers to make informed judgments about it and to appreciate the full spectrum of human cultural diversity.
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