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Title: | What does marriage mean to each gender of the Il-Chamus? - Husband-wife relationship of an East African agro-pastoral people |
Author: | Kawai, Kaori |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs: Supplementary Issue |
Issue: | 12 |
Pages: | 35-49 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | Njemps marriage |
External link: | http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68355/1/ASM_S_12_35.pdf |
Abstract: | The husband-wife relationship of the Il Chamus, an agropastoral people living in northern Kenya, is analysed from socioeconomical and behavioural viewpoints. Described are: 1) acquisition and inheritance of property, division of labour, and wives' separation from their husbands in polygynous families; and 2) the husband's control of the wife's behaviour, adultery, and legitimacy of the children. By marriage, Il Chamus husbands get wives' labour, which is indispensable for daily chores. By coresidence, they try to prevent wives from committing adultery, which endangers children's legitimacy. By marriage, wives get property, i.e. livestock and farms, to subsist on. It is not always necessary for them to coreside with their husbands. Bibliogr., note. |