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Title: | The relationships between the sexes in a coastal islamic society: Pangani district, Tanganyika |
Author: | Tanner, Ralph E.S. |
Year: | 1962 |
Periodical: | African Studies |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 70-82 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | marriage women Swahili Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Religion and Witchcraft |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00020186208707158 |
Abstract: | This study is concerned with the Swahili-speaking infertile Moslems of the coastal villages with their predominantly female population, with a high degree of stability of both form and population: The position of women and attitudes to marriage and sex; the background to marriage; attitudes and practices supposed to be based on western forms of sex relations; tribal and Islamic marriages of a divorced woman; secret marriage marriage between relatives; nominal marriage to permit remarriage of a previously divorced couple] marriage after common-law union; widow inheritance marriage; prostitution; lovers; common-law u-nions; mixed unions; problems of marital adjustment and choice; the instability of marriage as a fundamental of coastal life; conclusion. |